杜甫: 登楼/ du fu: from an upper story

登楼

杜甫

花近高楼伤客心， 万方多难此登临。

锦江春色来天地， 玉垒浮云变古今。

北极朝庭终不改， 西山寇盗莫相侵。

可怜后主还祠庙， 日暮聊为梁父吟。

　

from an upper story

du fu

flowers, as high as my window, hurt the heart of a wanderer

for i see, from this high vantage, sadness everywhere.

the silken river, bright with spring, floats between earth and heaven

like a line of cloud by the jade peak, between ancient days and now.

...though the state is established for a while as firm as the north star

and bandits dare not venture from the western hills,

yet sorry in the twilight for the woes of a longvanished emperor,

i am singing the song his premier sang when still unestranged from the mountain.