登金陵凤凰台

——李白

凤凰台上凤凰游，凤去台空江自流。

吴宫花草埋幽径，晋代衣冠成古丘。

三山半落青天外，二水中分白鹭洲。

总为浮云能蔽日，长安不见使人愁。

Mounting Phoenix Terrace at Jin Ling

(A lyric in metaphors-translation)

by Li Bai(701-762)

The Phoenix Terrace needs to be visited by phoenixes.

Phoenixes are gone and the terrace deserted.

But the river rolls down all the same.

Fragrant flowers and grasses of ancient palaces,

Are buried beneath lonely paths,

And those in official robes,

Lie in their miserable graves.

The three mountains are half-hidden behind a nearer one;

A stream forks into two with an islet in-between.

It's a pity that I can't see the capital,

For clouds can shade off the sunlight.