西河·大石金陵英译

佳丽地。南朝盛事谁记。山围故国绕清江，髻鬓对起。怒涛寂寞打孤城，风樯遥度天际。
断崖树，犹倒倚。莫愁艇子曾系。空余旧迹郁苍苍，雾沈半垒。夜深月过女墙来，赏心东望淮水。
酒旗戏鼓甚处市。想依稀、王谢邻里。燕子不知何世。入寻常、巷陌人家，相对如说兴亡，斜阳里。

ZHOU Bangyan – Lyrics to the Melody of the West River (In remembrance of bygone eras at Jinling)In this prosperous region, who remembers the South's grand eras?Mountains and fields of the countryside and the winding YangtzeSurround and build up away from the city.Raging billows like loneliness towards a solitary castle heave,On the distant horizon navigate sails and masts of ships.Off the precipice rugged trees overhang still,Who still comes here to secure the boat of a gent who never worried?All that remains on a historic site is sentimentality.And fog has come to one half of a castle conceal.Deep in the night, over the parapet the moon shines,In grief I look towards the east where pass the waters of River Huai.What a flourishing city full of wine vendors' pennants and operatic drumming!Faint is the memory of the Wangs, the Xies and their neighbourhoods,Swallows have come and gone for generations that all have lost count of.There are now ordinary people along the same streets and alleyways,Telling tales of the rise and fall of former times in the setting sun.