Li He: The Old Rabbit And The Cold Toad Have Cleansed Their House And Skies With Tears李賀 老兔寒蟾泣天色 雲樓半開壁斜白 Poem by Frank Yue

MENG TIAN: "Dream Celestial"
-by LI HE (790-816)
-Translated by Frank C Yue

The old Rabbit and the cold Toad
Have cleansed their House and skies with tears;
The fine Fairy Home -the cloud-foam'd,
White-wall'd Moon -slantingly appears.
Presses the round Jade Wheel gently
Against the wet dew-drops pearly.
When to the zenith rises the Moon,
With swaying pendants' jingling tune,
By the Cinnamon Tree fragrant,
I meet the Lady Elegant.

Gazing down at the Earth and seas
From the mystic Holy Mountains three -
Like a fast horse for thousands o' year,
Lands and seas appear and disappear.
Looking at the Middle Kingdom thus,
From afar -from ultra high up -
It is merely "Nine Specks of Dust",
And the oceans, water from a cup!


《夢天》唐 • 李賀

　　老兔寒蟾泣天色，雲樓半開壁斜白。
　　玉輪軋露濕團光，鸞珮相逢桂香陌。
　　黄塵清水三山下，更變千年如走馬。
　　遙望齊州九點煙，一泓海水杯中瀉。