<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 病中五絕句 (一)>
<Format: 七言絕句>
<Year: 1981>
<BookName: Tu Fu -A New Translation>
<Translator: Wu, Juntao>
<TranslatedTitle: Ill(first poem)>
<BookPage: 37>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 1>
<End Header>
<Poem>
世間生老病相隨
此事心中久自知
今日行年將七十
猶須慚愧病來遲
<End Poem>
<Translation>
That in this world
Birth, old age and sickness
Follow one another
Is a truth long known in my heart.
Today, on the verge of seventy years,
I should really be embarrassed
That illness comes so late.
<End Translation>
<Formatted Translation>
That in this world Birth, old age and sickness Follow one another
Is a truth long known in my heart.
Today, on the verge of seventy years,
I should really be embarrassed That illness comes so late.
<End Formatted Translation>