英譯: |
As boys they did service with the frontier troops,
Youthful adventurers from You and Yan.
They tested their prowess under horses’ hooves –
Then as now men careless of their lives.
Now when they’re killing, no one dares come forward’
Their beards stick out like bristling hedgehog spines.
Below the ridge of sandy clouds there are white clouds flying;
Their ruler’s grace is not yet requited – they cannot yet go home.
There’s a young woman from Liaodong, fifteen years of age,
Who knows the lute, and can sing and dance, and now is playing the tune
‘Going beyond the frontier pass’ on a Tibetan flute,
Making the soldiers in our legion shed their tears like rain.
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