Yang Wanli: Songs in a Sequence Like Bamboo Branches: Seven Poems: No. 6

 

Songs In Sequence Like Bamboo Branches: Seven Poems: No. 6

 

竹 枝 歌 有 序:七 首
月 予 弯 弯 照 九 州
几 家 覌 乐 几 家 愁?
愁 杀 人 来 关 月 事?
得 休 休 处 且 休 休。
Zhu Zhi Ge You Xu: Qi Shou

(6)

Yue zi wan wan zhao jiu zhou
Ji jia huan le ji jia chou?
Chou sha ren lai guang yue shi?
De xiu xiu chu qie xiu xiu.

 

Songs In Sequence Like Bamboo Branches: Seven Poems:      No. 6

Dawn moonlight over the whole land so crooked?
How many households see happiness, while others see sorrows?
Bright moonlight arrives, not to blame it for the damaging melancholy
For now stop and rest, live inside the here and now.