Yue Fei: My Helmet Is Raised In Anger By Bristl'ng Hair As I Stand By The Railing Here 岳飛 怒髮衝冠 憑闌處 瀟瀟雨歇 Poem by Frank Yue

Tune: MAN JIANG HONG ('All Red The River! ')
- by Yue Fei (1103-1142)
- Translated by Frank C Yue

My helmet is raised in anger by bristl'ng hair
As I stand by the railing here.
The driving rains cease.
I lift up my eyes to see,
Bellowing out a long cry toward the dark'ning skies -
My emotions are fierce and high!
Thirty years of honour and merit
Are nothing but dirt and grit.
I travelled eight thousand long miles,
By the clouds and the Moon beguiled.
Waiting idly, don't just remain.
Lest youthful heads turn white -you'll wail in vain!

The shame of Two Emper'rs' Abduction ne'er vindicated!
O When will loyal courtier's lament be eradicated?
We shall drive our chariots en mass
To crush the foe at Mount Helan Pass!
I resolve to gorge on Tartar's flesh in hunger,
Drink in thirst the Hun's blood amid talks and laughter!
Let's start anew to free our occupied homeland -
We'll report triumphant to the Imperial Court then.



【滿江紅】南宋 • 岳飛

怒髮衝冠，憑闌處，瀟瀟雨歇。
抬望眼，仰天長嘯，壯懷激烈。
三十功名塵與土，八千里路雲和月。
莫等閒，白了少年頭，空悲切。

靖康恥，猶未雪；
臣子恨，何時滅。
駕長車踏破賀蘭山缺。
壯志饑餐胡虜肉，笑談渴飲匈奴血。
待從頭，收拾舊山河，朝天闕。