dance to the poet

天地 万物之逆旅
光阴 百代之过客
浮生若梦
为欢几何
秉烛夜游
良有以也

阳春召我以烟景
大块假我以文章
开琼筵以坐花
飞羽觞而醉月

我本楚狂人
凤歌笑孔丘
手持绿玉杖
朝别黄鹤楼
登高壮观天地间
大江茫茫去不还

生者为过客
死者为归人
天地一逆旅
同悲万古尘

我本楚狂人
凤歌笑孔丘
银鞍照白马
飒沓如流星
长歌吟松风
曲尽河星稀

The universe is a hotel for all things,
Time is just a passer-by in thousands of centuries.
Life is floating like a dream,
How short can happiness last!
Let's hold the candles,
and light up this gala party!

Spring calls me for the dreamy views,
The Earth lends me profound poems.
Starts the floral banquet, we lay on flowers;
High fly the glazed glasses, we inebriate to the moon!

I'm a mad, mad, madman from Chu,
I mock, mock, mock at Confucius with my high beautiful songs.
I walk, walk, walk holding my green jade cane,
Again, again, again I depart from the tower of yellow crane.
So spectacular high on the mountains,
So vast and with no turns the great river runs and disappears.

The livings are just passengers,
Only the dead are back home.
The universe is just a hotel for all things,
Stardust is soaked by our forever tears.

I'm a mad, mad, madman from Chu,
I mock, mock, mock at Confucius with my high beautiful songs.
I march, march, march on my silver saddle and my white horse,
Step and stride and ride I am the meteors.
I sing and sing with winds through the pine trees,
Sparse and sparse the universe shall be when this song finally ends.