马戴: 灞上秋居/ ma dai: an autumn cottage at bashang

灞上秋居

马戴

灞原风雨定， 晚见雁行频。

落叶他乡树， 寒灯独夜人。

空园白露滴， 孤壁野僧邻。

寄卧郊扉久， 何年致此身？

　

an autumn cottage at bashang

ma dai

after the shower at bashang,

i see an evening line of wildgeese,

the limp-hanging leaves of a foreign tree,

a lantern's cold gleam, lonely in the night,

an empty garden, white with dew,

the ruined wall of a neighbouring monastery.

...i have taken my ease here long enough.

what am i waiting for, i wonder.