一萼紅 周密

一萼紅   登蓬萊閣有感       周密(1232-1298 )

步深幽。正雲黃天淡，雪意未全休。鑒曲寒沙，茂林煙草，俯仰千古悠悠。歲華晚、飄零漸遠，誰念我、同載五湖舟。磴古松斜，崖陰苔老，一片清愁。

回首天涯歸夢，幾魂飛西浦，淚灑東州。故國山川，故園心眼，還似王粲登樓。最憐他、秦鬟妝鏡，好江山、何事此時遊。為喚狂吟老監，共賦銷憂。

Yi E Hong   Muse on the Penglai Chamber       

Zhou Mi (1232-1298 )

Up this umbrageous chamber I scramble,
The sky is laden with gloomily heavy yellow clouds portending a squall,
By Mirror Pool’s chilly shoal,
The verdant woods and grasses are all shrouded in hazy mizzles,
Stories of all the past ages fleet away in the trice of a noddle,
I am getting old,
Forlornly I drift more and more remote,
Who will still remember cruising with me on the Five Lakes in the same boat,
By the ancient stone steps the pines lean at an angle,
In the dark nooks of the mountains spread layers of old mosses,
Surging in me are glum dismals,
Returning to my homeland in Xi Pu in my dreams I recall,
And the tears over Dong Zhou I spilled,
Now up the mountains and rivers of my homeland I scramble,
Just as the verse “Mounting the Tower” on the city wall tower of Jingzhou Wang Can composed,
They are all so heartening in my eyeful,
Mt Qin Wang was as captivating as a sprucing belle in front of the Mirror Pool,
Beholding such thrilling vista, I am greatly enthralled,
Why do I pick this time to gallivant and rove,
Just trying to raise the madly concocting bard He Tianzhang to join me in verse composing over a booze to quell our dismals.