Bai Juyi: Share Drunkenness With Li the Eleventh to Remember Yuan the Ninth

Share Drunkenness With Li the Eleventh to Remember Yuan the Ninth

同 李 十 一 醉 忆 元 九

花 时 同 醉 破 春 愁
醉 折 花 枝 作 酒 筹。

忽 忆 故 人 天 际 去
计 程 今 日 到 梁 州。

Tong Li Shi Yi Zui Yi Yuan Jiu

Hua shi tong zui po chun chou
Zui she hua zhi zuo jiu chou.                                                                                                  Hu yi gu ren tian ji qu
Ji cheng jin ri dao liang zhou.

Share Drunkenness With Li the Eleventh to Remember Yuan the Ninth

Shared wine highs last blossom season, we now try to shatter our melancholy
Play the wine drinking game of spinning the broken flower branches.  Suddenly recall our good friend has departed, and is so far away
We calculate that by today, he has arrived in Liangzhou.

Notes:

Liangzhou: City in Shaanxi Province.