唐 詩 Tang Shi – 300 Tang poems

登柳州城樓寄漳汀封連四州刺史
城上高樓接大荒， 海天愁思正茫茫。
驚風亂颭芙蓉水， 密雨斜侵薜荔牆。
嶺樹重遮千里目， 江流曲似九迴腸。
共來百越文身地， 猶自音書滯一鄉。

原文 203

At this lofty tower where the town ends, wilderness begins;
And our longing has as far to go as the ocean or the sky....
Hibiscus-flowers by the moat heave in a sudden wind,
And vines along the wall are whipped with slanting rain.
Nothing to see for three hundred miles but a blur of woods and mountain –
And the river's nine loops, twisting in our bowels....
This is where they have sent us, this land of tattooed people –
And not even letters, to keep us in touch with home.

Bynner 203