MY OLD ABODE
怀故居作
Where is the place?
何处所？
Outdoors cold clouds pile up over the pool in face.
门外冷云堆浦。
Will riverside cold mumes ’mid bamboos bloom or not?
竹里江梅寒未吐，
A light rain drizzles o’er the cot.
茅屋疏疏雨。
Who has sent so much sorrow to this land?
谁遣愁来如许？
By the wild pool at the ferry I stand.
小立野塘官渡。
Are cloudlike flowers I planted still there? Tell me please.
手种凌霄今在否？
On mist-veiled isles undulate willow trees.
柳浪迷烟渚。