At Twisting River with Ale before Me
By the river outside the park I sit and don’t go home,
palace halls of crystal grow ever more misted and dim.
Peach blossoms, tiny, follow the willow catkins falling,
and yellow birds sometimes go with white birds in their flight.
I have long indulged in drinking at will, others join in rejecting me,
too lazy for court, I have truly gotten at odds with the age.
This subaltern[1] feels even more aware that gray isles lie afar,
now old, I feel helpless pain that I have not brushed off my robes.
单词释义
[1] subaltern [ˈsʌbltən] n. (英国) 陆军中尉;