Unt it led—t o t he t une of Embroidered Red Shoes

［元］張養(yǎng)浩

佚 名（譯）

Life experiences help me see through the worldly affair,

Aspiring to an imperial favor I am frustrated into despair,

A loser and poor man,

I compare not myself to a high mountain green.

Behind there is distance of a thousand years foreseen,

Ahead there are ten thousand years to come for man,

What a mere trifle is this life's short span!

弄世界機(jī)關(guān)識(shí)破，

叩天門意氣消磨，

人潦倒青山慢嵯峨。

前面有千古遠(yuǎn)，

后頭有萬年多，

量半炊時(shí)成得甚么。

《朱履曲·無題》是元代著名政治家、文學(xué)家張養(yǎng)浩的作品。本曲寫于作者被罷官之后，作者回首官場中的風(fēng)波驚險(xiǎn)，有萬千感慨，更有著深于世故的銳利。