Chen Ziang: Fort Ding Ling Is So Desolate,With Its Lonesome, Cold, Dark Fate 陳子昂 漢甲三十萬 曾以事凶奴 Poem by Frank Yue

GAN YU: Pondering Over My Experience No.3 (of 38)
- by CHEN ZI'ANG (661-702)
- Translated by Frank C Yue

Fort Ding Ling is so desolate,
With its lonesome, cold, dark fate -
From days of old to nowadays,
It is so far, far away.
Tall watch-towers dilapidated,
Scatter'd white bones ne'er collected.
Three thousand armour'd troops times a hundr'd
Did fight the fierce invading Huns.
They fell on frontier battlefields old;
Who would pity these lonely souls?



《感遇詩》三十八首 其三唐 • 陳子昂

蒼蒼丁零塞， 今古緬荒途。

亭堠何摧兀， 暴骨無全軀。

黃沙幕南起， 白日隱西隅。

漢甲三十萬， 曾以事凶奴。

但見沙場死， 誰憐塞上（下）孤。



《感遇 • 苍苍丁零塞》 唐 • 陈子昂


苍苍丁零塞，今古缅荒途。

亭堠何摧兀，暴骨无全躯。

黄沙漠南起，白日隐西隅。

汉甲三十万，曾以事匈奴。

但见沙场死，谁怜塞上孤！