Monday, June 22, 2009

人生知何似?

人生到處知何似?
應似飛鴻踏雪泥 。
泥上偶然留指爪 ,
鴻飛那復計東西 。

宋朝/蘇東坡(和子由澠池懷舊)

To what can human life be likened?
Perhaps to a wild goose's footprint on snow.
The claw's imprint is accidentally left,
But carefree, the bird flies east and west.

by Su Tungpo (Nostalgia-in Response to Tseyu's Poem)

Translated by Lin Yutnag 翻譯/林語堂

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