行路難（唐）李白

金樽清酒斗十千，玉盤珍饈值萬錢。停杯投箸不能食， 拔劍四顧心茫然。

欲渡黃河冰塞川，將登太行雪暗天。 閑來垂釣碧溪上， 忽复乘舟夢日邊。

行路難！行路難！多歧路，今安在？ 長風破浪會有時， 直挂雲帆濟滄海。

 

Hard Ways to Travel

by Li Bai of Tang Dynasty

 

Limpid wine in golden goblets worth ten thousand coppers a bushel;

Dainty food on jade plates cost a myriad coins.

Stop raising the goblet, put down chopsticks, not feel like eating more;

Draw out my sword, looking about, totally at a loss.

I'd ferry across the Yellow River, but waterway blocked by ice;

About to go up Mt. Taihang, but snow darkens the sky.

Being idle, go angling at a green stream;

All at once, I dream in a boat to the side of the sun.

Hard ways to travel, hard ways to travel!

Ways so diverged, where am I now?

There'll be a time to ride the wind and cleave the waves;

And hoisting the sail into clouds, I'll go across the vast sea.