An Ancient House of Anhui

 

?徽州古建筑有感

是否,

当清晨第一束阳光,

照在这小小的水塘,

有一位美丽的姑娘,

轻轻地推开她的窗。

她的双眸如水啊,

有着玫瑰般的芬芳。

一朵洁白的栀子花,

簪在她乌黑的发上。

她与她的侍女,

低笑着,

轻移莲步,

绕过九转的回廊,

坐在后花园的秋千架上。

有一只五彩的蝴蝶,

落在她翠绿的衫上。

不知多少年了

一群游人,

喧闹着走入这高墙。

仍是那水塘,那窗,

后花园的秋千,

在四月的春风里

轻轻地摇荡。

 

 

My thoughts flew back a thousand years to see
this home in ancient Anhui sunlight bathed.

Another girl like me was pleased to know
the sweet soft fragrance of a morning rose.

I wonder if she took a snow-white flower
and placed it in her jet black hair that day
as sunlight met the surface of the pond.

Laughter, like the crystal water’s flowing,
She greets the morning with her friend and maid.

Cross corridors of time we find the garden growing
Where butterfly on green silk dresses played.

No noisy crowds so many years ago,
the