On the day of Lu Yu's last sickness

陆游病危的最后一天

a thin coffin was ready,

一口薄棺已备好

and two quilts to cover him,

还有两条被子盖他

and the gravediggers paid

掘墓人收了工钱

                                 their work done.

　　　　已经完了工

Then he started to write another poem

然后他开始赋一首新诗

a short time before death,

死亡很快就要降临

about drinking wine again in the village -

他写的是又到村上喝酒——

He was working on the poem when they buried him,

人们安葬他的时候他还在运思

so that half a line protruded from the earth

所以有半行诗句冒出泥土

                                 in wind and weather's hearing -

　　　　迎着风，而天气在倾听——

With sunlight touching the first young syllables,

阳光轻拂先写出的年轻词字，

the last ones flowering from a dark coffin:

最后几个从黑棺中开出花朵：

                      "marketplace the in/drink more One"

　　　　“入市更／饮一杯醉”

The first three words above ground

前三个字冒出了地面

the last ones wine in the Red Dust.

而后面几个以酒招待红尘。

Near the village of Shanyang

靠近的那个村子浙江省的

                                 in Chekiang Province…

　　　　　　山阴县……

注：所引杜甫这句诗不存在，我创造的这句诗也不存在。