To the Crabapple Flower

海 棠

[唐] 郑谷（许渊冲译）

The vernal breeze has brightened your color so fine;

You stir my mind to write a verse before good wine.

With rain impearled on you, more beautiful you grow;

You're all the more bewitching when about to blow.

The fair forgets to powder her face before you;

The painter hesitates to draw your picture new.

Nor verse nor wine's enough to show delight in me;

I envy butterflies perching deep in your tree.

春风用意匀颜色，

销得携觞与赋诗。

秾丽最宜新著雨，

娇娆全在欲开时。

莫愁粉黛临窗懒，

梁广丹青点笔迟。

朝醉暮吟看不足，

羡他蝴蝶宿深枝。

[词汇] bewitch

v. 施魔法于，蛊惑；使着迷

This bewitch person it is a clown really.

这个蛊惑者真是个小丑。