(10) A Moonlit Night In The Mountains
山中月夕
Liu Yin (1240-1293)
刘因
So full of gloomy thoughts, I'm desolate and drear;
满怀幽思自萧萧，
At dead of night I face the empty mountains high.
况对空山夜正遥。
The cliffs are whitened by the frost of autumn clear;
四壁晴秋霜著色，
The moon emerges above the clouds flooding the sky.
一天明水月生潮。
The rocky valley echoes with my stirring strain;
歌传岩谷声豪宕，
My shadow trembles in the stream studd'd with starlight.
酒泛星河影动摇。
Drunken, I seem to hear the ape say to the crane:
醉里似闻猿鹤语，
For hundred years the world's not so fair as tonight!
百年人境有今朝。