张祜: 题金陵渡/ Zhang Hu: AT NANJING FERRY

题金陵渡

张祜

金陵津渡小山楼， 一宿行人自可愁。

潮落夜江斜月里， 两三星火是瓜州。

AT NANJING FERRY

Zhang Hu

This one-story inn at Nanjing ferry

Is a miserable lodging-place for the night --

But across the dead moon's ebbing tide,

Lights from Guazhou beckon on the river.