杜甫: 阁夜/ du fu: night in the watch-tower

阁夜

杜甫

岁暮阴阳催短景， 天涯霜雪霁寒霄。

五更鼓角声悲壮， 三峡星河影动摇。

野哭千家闻战伐， 夷歌数处起渔樵。

卧龙跃马终黄土， 人事音书漫寂寥。

　

night in the watch-tower

du fu

while winter daylight shortens in the elemental scale

and snow and frost whiten the cold-circling night,

stark sounds the fifth-watch with a challenge of drum and bugle.

...the stars and the river of heaven pulse over the three mountains;

i hear women in the distance, wailing after the battle;

i see barbarian fishermen and woodcutters in the dawn.

...sleeping-dragon, plunging-horse, are no generals now, they are dust --

hush for a moment, o tumult of the world.