ABRUPTO

07:02 (JPP)

EARLY MORNING BLOGS

1425 - To Qiwu Qian Bound Home After Failing an Examination


京洛縫春衣	江淮度寒食	孰云吾道非	既至金門遠	不得顧採薇	遂令東山客	英靈盡來歸	聖代無隱者	送綦毋潛落第還鄉


勿謂知音稀	吾謀適不用	孤城當落暉	遠樹帶行客	未幾拂荊扉	行當浮桂棹	同心與我違	置酒長安道	送綦毋潛落第還鄉

So you, a man of the eastern mountains,
Gave up your life of picking herbs
And came all the way to the Gate of Gold --
But you found your devotion unavailing.
...To spend the Day of No Fire on one of the southern rivers,
You have mended your spring clothes here in these northern cities.
I pour you the farewell wine as you set out from the capital --
Soon I shall be left behind here by my bosomfriend.
In your sail-boat of sweet cinnamon-wood
You will float again toward your own thatch door,
Led along by distant trees
To a sunset shining on a far-away town.
...What though your purpose happened to fail,
Doubt not that some of us can hear high music.

(Wang Wei, traduzido por Bynner.)