Pure Serene Music-Passing One Lonely Night at Boshan
- Poetry of Xin Qiji

《清平乐·独宿博山王氏庵》
Pure Serene Music-Passing One Lonely Night at Boshan by Xin Qiji
中文原文( Chinese )

绕床饥鼠，蝙蝠翻灯舞。

屋上松风吹急雨，破纸窗间自语。

平生塞北江南，归来华发苍颜。

布被秋宵梦觉，眼前万里江山。

English Translation

Around the bed run hungry rats,

In lamplight to and fro fly bats.

On pine-shad'd roof the wind and shower rattle,

The window paper-scraps are heard to prattle.


I roam from north to south,from place to place,

And come back with gray hair and wrinkled face.

I woke up in thin quilt on autumn night.

The boundless land I dreamed of still remains in sight.

Unable to do what he wanted to,the patriotic poet lived in the countryside of Jiangxi.This lyric described one lonely night he passed in a convent at Boshan and his dream of the lost land.

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