Liu Yuxi's "Walking On The Causeway"劉禹錫 酒旗相望大堤頭 Poem by Frank Yue

DI SHANG XING: "Walking on the Causeway"
-by LIU YUXI (772-842)
-Translated by Frank C Yue

Wine banners at each other stare
At the head of the causeway long.
Below the causeway, masts line up;
Above, tav'rns beckons with wine cup.

At sundown, hurri'd come along
Pedestrians the ferry to fare;
Now, all over mid-stream are found
Rowing oars with their moving sound.

《堤上行》 劉禹錫


酒旗相望大堤頭，
堤下連檣堤上樓。
日暮行人爭渡急，
槳聲幽軋滿中流。