雙語 ● 昨夜松邊醉倒

TUNE: THE MOON OVER THE WEST RIVER

西江月

WRITTEN AT RANDOM

遣興

Drunken, I’d laugh my fill,

醉里且貪歡笑，

Having no time to be grieved.

要愁那得功夫？

Books of the ancients may say what they will;

近來始覺古人書，

They cannot be wholly believed.

信著全無是處。

Drunken last night beneath a pine tree,

昨夜松邊醉倒，

I ask if it liked me so drunk.

問松我醉何如？

Afraid it would bend to try to raise me,

只疑松動要來扶，

“Be off!” I said and pushed its trunk.

以手推松曰去！