雙語 ● 缺月掛疏桐

TUNE: SONG OF DIVINATION

WRITTEN AT DINGHUI ABBEY IN HUANGZHOU

From a sparse plane tree hangs the waning moon,

The waterclock is still and hushed is man.

Who sees a hermit pacing up and down alone?

Is it the shadow of a swan?

Startled, he turns his head

With a grief none behold.

Looking all over, he won’t perch on branches dead

But on the lonely sandbank cold.

卜算子

黃州定惠院寓居作

缺月掛疏桐，

漏斷人初靜。

誰見幽人獨往來？

縹緲孤鴻影。

驚起卻回頭，

有恨無人省。

揀盡寒枝不肯棲，

寂寞沙洲冷。