TUNE: THE MOON OVER MELON ISLET

月上瓜洲

WRITTEN AT VARIOUS-VIEWED TOWED

南徐多景楼作

How much grief to see the autumn wind blows

江头又见新秋，

By the riverside again!

几多愁？

Frontier grass skyward grows.

塞草连天，

Where’s the lost Central Plain?

何处是神州？

Our heroes’ tear on tear,

英雄恨，

Though shed from year to year,

古今泪，

With the eastward-going river flows.

水东流。

Only the moonshine

With my fishing line

唯有渔竿明月，

On Melon Islet goes.

上瓜洲。