Shui Diao Ge Tou
by Su Shi
Will a moon so bright ever arise again?
Drink a cupful of wine and ask of the shy,
I don't know where the palace gate of Heaven is,
Or even the year in which tonight slips by.
I want to return riding the whirlwind! But I
Feel afraid that this heaven of jasper and jade
Lets in the cold, its palaces rear so high.
I shall get up and dance with my own shadow.
From life endured among men how far a cry!
Pound the red pavilion
Slanting through the lattices
Onto every wakeful eye,
Moon, why should you bear a grudge, O why
Insist in time of separation so to fill the sky?
Men know joy and sorrow, parting and reunion;
While the moon waxes and wanes.
Perfection was never easily come by.
Though miles apart, could men but live forever
Dreaming they shared this moonlight together!
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