雙語 ● 茅屋疏疏雨

TUNE: AT THE GOLDEN GATE

謁金門

MY OLD ABODE

懷故居作

Where is the place?

何處所？

Outdoors cold clouds pile up over the pool in face.

門外冷云堆浦。

Will riverside cold mumes ’mid bamboos bloom or not?

竹里江梅寒未吐，

A light rain drizzles o’er the cot.

茅屋疏疏雨。

Who has sent so much sorrow to this land?

誰遣愁來如許？

By the wild pool at the ferry I stand.

小立野塘官渡。

Are cloudlike flowers I planted still there? Tell me please.

手種凌霄今在否？

On mist-veiled isles undulate willow trees.

柳浪迷煙渚。