Seeing Off Attendant Censor Zhangsun, Setting Off for a Position as Administrative Assistant in Wuwei
The hooves of the dappled gray have recently been nailed,
it has been covered well with a silver saddle.
In brocade robes, a lad with seals yellow and white,
rides off on the Cross Rivers Road.
For this journey of ten thousand leagues I ask
why do you take leave so hurriedly?
“The Son of Heaven worries about Liangzhou,
on a strict schedule I should arrive as soon as I can.”
Last autumn the Hu horde[1] rebelled,
you cannot fail to sweep them away like lightning.
On this journey you will gather the remaining peasants,
and will then revive the customs there.
My great uncle is the high commander,
his reputation is as a senior of the realm.
The best of my colleagues has been snatched away,
swept afar, to inspect a fortress.
This makes me unable to eat,
and causes me unpleasant feelings.
Such a man’s talented thoughts are vast,
a dark sea inundating[2] the most remote isles.
In drinking I have lost one of the poets,
while the frontier has gotten a jewel of the realm.
August Heaven grieves sending him so far,
clouds and rain are white and flooding.
Beacon fires are still on the Eastern Meadow,
people look gaunt and distressed in court and wilderness.
If even the pillar of the furthest west collapses,
how will it be possible to set aright the vault of sky?
单词释义
[1] horde [hɔːd] n. 一大群人;
[2] inundate [ˈɪnʌndeɪt] v. 使不胜负荷; 使应接不暇; 淹没; 泛滥;