“少年听雨歌楼上”的李约瑟译本！

（据《the man who loved China）
英文李约瑟传里说，这是李约瑟翻译的“少年听雨歌楼上……”，有意译的地方，比如歌楼翻成了tower，罗帐省略。
As a young man ,listening to the girls in a tower
I heard the sound of the rain,
While the red candle burned dim in the damp air.
In middle age, travelling by boat on a river,
I listened to the rain falling, falling:
The river was wide and clouds drifted above;
I heard the solitary cry of a teal borne on the west wind.
And now in a cloister cell I hear the rain