Hoàng-Ân
Vun Tình
Đơm vun vun sôi
đĩa đầy
Nâng hoa huệ
trắng
Lọ đồng cổ cao
Thắp hương
rủ Nguyệt-Lão
về
thắt nơ tình-ái
buộc Đời-nhau
tươi
Tiết Đông
gió đón
Tết sang
Góc riêng
chung
hội vui
quanh địa-cầu.
WILLIAM THOMPSON (1712-1766)
THE HAPPY LIFE
A book, a friend, a song, a glass,
A chaste, yet laughter-loving lass,
To mortals various joys impart,
Inform the sense, and warm the heart.
Thrice happy they, who careless laid
Beneath a kind-embowering shade,
With rosy wreaths their temples crown,
In rosy wine their sorrow drown.
Begone, ambition, riches, toys,
And splendid cares, and guilty joys--
Give me a book, a friend, a glass,
And a chaste, laughter-loving lass.
