Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again --- by Xu Zhimo

　　Very quietly I take my leave

　　As quietly as I came here;

　　Quietly I wave good-bye

　　To the rosy clouds in the western sky。

　　The golden willows by the riverside

　　Are young brides in the setting sun;

　　Their reflections on the shimmering waves

　　Always linger in the depth of my heart。

　　The floatingheart growing in the sludge

　　Sways leisurely under the water;

　　In the gentle waves of Cambridge

　　I would be a water plant!

　　That pool under the shade of elm trees

　　Holds not water but the rainbow from the sky;

　　Shattered to pieces among the duckweeds

　　Is the sediment of a rainbow-like dream?

　　To seek a dream?Just to pole a boat upstream

　　To where the green grass is more verdant;

　　Or to have the boat fully loaded with starlight

　　And sing aloud in the splendour of starlight。

　　But I cannot sing aloud

　　Quietness is my farewell music;

　　Even summer insects heep silence for me

　　Silent is Cambridge tonight!

　　Very quietly I take my leave

　　As quietly as I came here;

　　Gently I flick my sleeves

　　Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring away

　　November 6,1928

　　再別康橋

　　輕輕的我走了,

　　正如我輕輕的來;

　　我輕輕的招手,

　　作別西天的云彩。

　　那河畔的金柳,

　　是夕陽中的新娘;

　　波光里的艷影,

　　在我的心頭蕩漾。

　　軟泥上的青荇,

　　悠悠的在水底招搖;

　　在康橋的柔波里,

　　我甘心做一條水草!

　　那榆蔭下的一潭,

　　不是清泉,是天上虹,

　　揉碎在浮藻間,

　　沉淀著彩虹似的夢。

　　尋夢?撐一支長蒿,

　　向青草更青處漫溯,

　　滿載一船星輝,

　　在星輝斑斕里放歌。

　　但我不能放歌,

　　悄悄是別離的笙簫;

　　夏蟲也為我沉默,

　　沉默是今晚的康橋!

　　悄悄的我走了,

　　正如我悄悄的來;

　　我揮一揮衣袖,

　　不帶走一片云彩。