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刘长卿: 秋日登吴公台上寺远眺/ Liu Changqing: CLIMBING IN AUTUMN FOR A VIEW FROM THE TEMPLE ON THE TERRACE OF GENERAL WU

秋日登吴公台上寺远眺

刘长卿

古台摇落后, 秋日望乡心。

野寺人来少, 云峰水隔深。

夕阳依旧垒, 寒磬满空林。

惆怅南朝事, 长江独至今。

 

CLIMBING IN AUTUMN FOR A VIEW FROM THE TEMPLE

ON THE TERRACE OF GENERAL WU

Liu Changqing

So autumn breaks my homesick heart....

Few pilgrims venture climbing to a temple so wild,

Up from the lake, in the mountain clouds.

...Sunset clings in the old defences,

A stone gong shivers through the empty woods.

...Of the Southern Dynasty, what remains?

Nothing but the great River.