老人水中自赞

The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

曾听老人言:“万事可变。依次而下,吾等皆归。”盈盈水畔,双手成兽爪,扭膝为荆棘。

I HEARD the old,old men say,"Everything alters,And one by one we drop away." They had hands like claws,and their knees Were twisted like the old thorn,trees By the waters.