《满纸荒唐言》－ 曹雪芹 （紅樓夢）

《满纸荒唐言》－ 曹雪芹 （紅樓夢）

 

满纸荒唐言，

一把辛酸泪。

都云作者痴，

谁解其中味？ 

 

A Quatrain by Cao Xueqin (The Story of the Stone)

(Pages Fraught with Absurd Words)

 

In absurd tongues full pages do speak,

With which sad tears are overflowed.

All call the pen a foolish freak,

Yet who'd his cryptic words decode?   

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

07/08/2024

(revised)