（古詩英譯）《桃源行》－ 王維

《桃源行》－ 王維

 

漁舟逐水愛山春，

兩岸桃花夾古津。

坐看紅樹不知遠，

行盡青溪不見人。

山口潛行始隈隩，

山開曠望旋平陸。

遙看一處攢雲樹，

近入千家散花竹。

樵客初傳漢姓名，

居人未改秦衣服。

居人共住武陵源，

還從物外起田園。

月明鬆下房櫳靜，

日出雲中雞犬喧。

驚聞俗客爭來集，

競引還家問都邑。

平明閭巷掃花開，

薄暮漁樵乘水入。

初因避地去人間，

及至成仙遂不還。

峽裏誰知有人事，

世中遙望空雲山。

不疑靈境難聞見，

塵心未盡思鄉縣。

出洞無論隔山水，

辭家終擬長遊衍。

自謂經過舊不迷，

安知峰壑今來變。

當時隻記入山深，

青溪幾度到雲林。

春來遍是桃花水，

不辨仙源何處尋。

  

The Tale of Peach Blossom Spring

By Wang Wei

 

A fishing boat floats down to see the sights of spring

Along the shores lined with the peach flowers thriving.

The fisher oars forth for watching the trees in red;

To the end of the stream, he spies no one ahead.

 

A cave turns up in the hill secret and serene,

Thro’ which there lies a vast plain with the fairest scene.

Afar he can catch sight of crowds of clouds-crowned trees;

Close up houses amid blooms and bamboos he sees.

 

The woodsmen introduce themselves in Han language,

And people still wear clothes of Ch’in in the village.

They have lived here in generations in Wuling,

Whence a heaven’s built without any worldly thing.

 

Their houses quiet under the pines and moon bright,

At sunrise roosters crow and dogs bark with delight.

Amazed, to see this outsider they all come down, 

And invite him home to tell of their old hometown.  

 

At dawn they ope their doors to sweep petals on roads;

At dusk fishermen and woodsmen boat home with loads.

At first, they just ran away from the blight and plight;

At last on this paradise they came to alight.

 

Since then the earthly things they in the vales ne’er care;

All the outsiders can see is cloudy hills fair.

It’s hard to find a heaven the fisher doesn’t think,

Yet with his home it’s tough for him to cut a link.

 

O, tho' he left the cave, whence beyond hills and rills,

He opts to revisit this place of many thrills.

He’s certain he’s been there, so get lost not he will,

Yet to his surprise all have changed in th’ vale and hill. 

 

He can recall when into the hill, it was steep;

Along the stream zigzag to the cloudy woods deep.

Again, the peach blooms by the stream as spring does call,

But he cannot track down the fairy cave at all.

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

02/03/2013