Crossing these blue hills adds nothing to one’s years,
The landscape here is beyond compare.
Straight from the walls of Huichang lofty peaks,
Range after range, extend to the eastern seas.
Our soldiers point southward to Kwangtung
Looming lusher and greener in the distance.
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Whither are we bound today?Straight to the foot of Wuyi Mountain.To the mountain, the foot of the mountain,Red flags stream in the wind in a blaze of glory.
I lost my proud Poplar and you your Willow,
Wu Kang, asked what he can give,Serves them a laurel brew.The lonely moon goddess spreads her ample sleevesTo dance for these loyal souls in infinite space.Earth suddenly reports the tiger subdued,Tears of joy pour forth falling as mighty rain.
A thunderstorm burst over the earth,
The deluded monk was not beyond the light,But the malignant demon must wreak havoc.The Golden Monkey wrathfully swung his massive cudgelAnd the jade-like firmament was cleared of dust.Today, a miasmal mist once more rising,We hail Sun Wu-kung, the wonder-worker.
Like a dim dream recalled, I curse the long-fled past
The red flag roused the serf, halberd in hand,While the despot’s black talons held his whip aloft.Bitter sacrifice strengthens bold resolveWhich dares to make sun and moon shine in new skies.Happy, I see wave upon wave of paddy and beans,And all around heroes home-bound in the evening mist.
So many green streams and blue hills, but to what avail ?
Hundreds of villages choked with weeds, men wasted away;Thousands of homes deserted, ghosts chanted mournfully.Motionless, by earth I travel eighty thousand li a day,Surveying the sky I see a myriad Milky Ways from afar.Should the Cowherd ask tidings of the God of Plague,Say the same griefs flow down the stream of time.The spring wind blows…
I still remember our drinking tea in Kwangchow
Back in the old capital after thirty-one years,At the season of falling flowers I read your polished lines.Beware of heartbreak with grievance overfull,Range far your eye over long vistas.Do not say the waters of Kunming Lake are too shallow,For watching fish they are better than Fuchun River.