An Elegy For Myself
Wherever there is life, there must be death;
Sooner or later we‘ll breathe our last breath.
Last night we lived as men who fill their posts;
Today my name‘s enlisted among the ghosts.
Where is my soul that‘s fled far, far away?
A shrivelled form in wooden box would stay.
My children seek after their father, crying;
My friends caress my dead body, sighing.
For gain or loss I no longer care,
And right or wrong is no more my affair.
Thousands of springs and autumns pass away,
So will disgrace and glory of today.
Perchance I may regret, whild living still,
I have not drunken good wine to my fill.
挽歌詩
有生必有死
早終非命促
昨暮同為人
今旦在鬼錄
魂氣散何之
枯形見空木
嬌兒索父啼
良友撫我哭
得失不復知
是非安能覺
千秋萬歲后
誰知榮與辱
但恨在世時
飲酒不得足
Wherever there is life, there must be death;
Sooner or later we‘ll breathe our last breath.
Last night we lived as men who fill their posts;
Today my name‘s enlisted among the ghosts.
Where is my soul that‘s fled far, far away?
A shrivelled form in wooden box would stay.
My children seek after their father, crying;
My friends caress my dead body, sighing.
For gain or loss I no longer care,
And right or wrong is no more my affair.
Thousands of springs and autumns pass away,
So will disgrace and glory of today.
Perchance I may regret, whild living still,
I have not drunken good wine to my fill.
挽歌詩
有生必有死
早終非命促
昨暮同為人
今旦在鬼錄
魂氣散何之
枯形見空木
嬌兒索父啼
良友撫我哭
得失不復知
是非安能覺
千秋萬歲后
誰知榮與辱
但恨在世時
飲酒不得足