（古詩英譯）《別老母》－ 黃景仁

《別老母》－ 黃景仁

 

搴帷拜母河梁去，

白發愁看淚眼枯。

慘慘柴門風雪夜，

此時有子不如無。

 

A Quatrain by Huang Jingren

(Leaving My Old Mother for A Counselling Post)

 

Ere leaving, I bid mother farewell at the door,

Her hair all grey, her tearful eyes can tear no more.

Now only this twig-door guards her on snowy nights,

Had she had no son, no grief would have wrenched her core.

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

 

把帷帳撩起，因為要去河梁謀生故依依不舍要向年邁的母親辭別，看到白發蒼蒼的老母不由淚下不仃，眼淚也流幹了。在這風雪之夜不能孝敬與母親團敘，從而開了這淒慘的分離的柴門遠去，不禁令人興歎：養子又有何用呢？倒不如沒有啊。

（原文注釋來之網絡，特此致謝）