陶淵明——《歸園田居》（其一）

陶淵明——《歸園田居》（其一）

 

少無適俗韻，性本愛丘山。
誤落塵網中，一去三十年。
羈鳥戀舊林，池魚思故淵。
開荒南野際，守拙歸田園。
方宅十餘畝，草屋八九間。
榆柳蔭後椋，桃李羅堂前。
曖曖遠人村，依依墟裏煙。
狗吠深巷中，雞鳴桑樹顛。
戶庭無塵雜，虛室有餘閑。
久在樊籠裏，複得返自然。

 

A Pastoral by Tao Yuan-ming

 

From youth, a misfit have I been,

Yet drawn unto hills, high or low.

Misled into the dusty snare,

For thirty long years, to and fro.

The snared bird pines for his old woods,

The pool-trapped fish his home stream's flow.

I cling to my plain self and fields,

The southern heath I would fain hoe.

A few plots under my thatched roof,

Some eight rooms in this bungalow.

Foreyard — rows of peach and pear trees,

Backyard in shade — elm and willow.

Afar, hamlets spread out in sight,

Cooking smoke spirals in a row.

Inside the deep alleys — dogs bark,

Atop the mulberries — cocks crow.  

My courtyards, free from din and dust,

My bare rooms let my leisure grow.

Too long fettered in worldly cage,

I repair to nature — joys glow.

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

26/01/2026

(To be revised)