与高适薛据登慈恩寺浮图
岑参
塔势如涌出, 孤高耸天宫。
登临出世界, 磴道盘虚空。
突兀压神州, 峥嵘如鬼工。
四角碍白日, 七层摩苍穹。
下窥指高鸟, 俯听闻惊风。
连山若波涛, 奔凑如朝东。
青槐夹驰道, 宫馆何玲珑。
秋色从西来, 苍然满关中。
五陵北原上, 万古青蒙蒙。
净理了可悟, 胜因夙所宗。
誓将挂冠去, 觉道资无穷。
ASCENDING THE PAGODA AT THE TEMPLE OF KIND
FAVOUR WITH GAO SHI AND XUE JU
Cen Can
The pagoda, rising abruptly from earth,
Reaches to the very Palace of Heaven….
Climbing, we seem to have left the world behind us,
With the steps we look down on hung from space.
It overtops a holy land
And can only have been built by toil of the spirit.
Its four sides darken the bright sun,
Its seven stories cut the grey clouds;
Birds fly down beyond our sight,
And the rapid wind below our hearing;
Mountain-ranges, toward the east,
Appear to be curving and flowing like rivers;
Far green locust-trees line broad roads
Toward clustered palaces and mansions;
Colours of autumn, out of the west,
Enter advancing through the city;
And northward there lie, in five graveyards,
Calm forever under dewy green grass,
Those who know life's final meaning
Which all humankind must learn.
…Henceforth I put my official hat aside.
To find the Eternal Way is the only happiness.
贼退示官吏并序
元结
癸卯岁,西原贼入道州,焚烧杀掠,几尽而去。明年,贼又攻永州,
破邵,不犯此州边鄙而退,岂力能制敌欤?盖蒙其伤怜而已。诸史何
为忍苦徵敛?故作诗一篇以示官吏。
昔岁逢太平, 山林二十年。
泉源在庭户, 洞壑当门前。
井税有常期, 日晏犹得眠。
忽然遭时变, 数岁亲戎旃。
今来典斯郡, 山夷又纷然。
城小贼不屠, 人贫伤可怜。
是以陷邻境, 此州独见全。
使臣将王命, 岂不如贼焉。
令彼徵敛者, 迫之如火煎。
谁能绝人命, 以作时世贤。
思欲委符节, 引竿自刺船。
将家就鱼麦, 归老江湖边。
TO THE TAX-COLLECTORS AFTER THE BANDITS RETREAT
Yuan Jie
In the year Kuimao the bandits from Xiyuan entered Daozhou, set fire, raided, killed, and looted. The whole district was almost ruined. The next year the bandits came again and, attacking the neighbouring prefecture, Yong, passed this one by. It was not because we were strong enough to defend ourselves, but, probably, because they pitied us. And how now can these commissioners bear to impose extra taxes? I have written this poem for the collectors' information.
I still remember those days of peace --
Twenty years among mountains and forests,
The pure stream running past my yard,
The caves and valleys at my door.
Taxes were light and regular then,
And I could sleep soundly and late in the morning-
Till suddenly came a sorry change.
…For years now I have been serving in the army.
When I began here as an official,
The mountain bandits were rising again;
But the town was so small it was spared by the thieves,
And the people so poor and so pitiable
That all other districts were looted
And this one this time let alone.
…Do you imperial commissioners
Mean to be less kind than bandits?
The people you force to pay the poll
Are like creatures frying over a fire.
And how can you sacrifice human lives,
Just to be known as able collectors? --
…Oh, let me fling down my official seal,
Let me be a lone fisherman in a small boat
And support my family on fish and wheat
And content my old age with rivers and lakes!