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文天祥·《金陵驿》
草合离宫转夕晖，孤云飘泊复何依？
山河风景原无异，城郭人民半已非。
满地芦花和我老，旧家燕子傍谁飞？
从今别却江南日，化作啼鹃带血归。
Written at the Jinling Hostel1
Wen Tianxiang
O’ergrown with grass is the Imperial Villa2
Against the shifting sunset glow.
Now like a lone cloud drifting, am I sure
My orientation I still know?
The countryside, the landscape, indeed show
No difference from what they’re before,
But half the people in town and suburb
Are like they used to be no more.
Reed-catkins everywhere—in harmony
With my own gray old age in plight;
And swallows seeking their old homes in vain,
Where will they, hovering, alight?
From south of th’ Yangtse once I depart,
My spirit will only return transformed
Into the calling Cuckoo3—dripping blood from the heart.
