儀征新城途中，1947

槳聲篙影波紋，

石橋礅，

蠶豆花開一路水鄉春。

長跳板，

小河岸，

洗衣人。

綠褲紅衫都道是新婚。

注：

江蘇儀征是作者的故鄉。新城當時是儀征的一個小鎮，距儀征東門約5公里。1947年4月，作者當時是金陵中學高中二年級學生，放春假期間，特地由南京回到故鄉儀征，住在小姑母家中。

Tune: Meeting in Delight

—During a journey to Xincheng, Yizheng, 1947

Paddling sound, pole shadow, water waves,

Stone bridge piers,

The springtime watertown is aglow with broad bean fl owers.

Long is the board,

Small the riverside,

Where a girl launders,

In trousers green and a coat red, said to be newlywed.

Note:

Yizheng in Jiangsu province is the author's hometown. At the time Xincheng was a small town about five kilometers to the East Gate of Yizheng. The author was then a second-year senior-high-school student at Jinling Middle School, Nanjing. During his spring vacation, he went his way from Nanjing to Yizheng for a short stay with his younger aunt.