Hard is the way of the world – part 1

Pure wine in golden cup costs ten thousand coins – good!
Choice dish in a plate of jade is worth as much – nice food!
Pushing aside my cup and chopsticks, I can't eat;
Drawing my sword and looking round, I stamp my feet.
I can't cross Yellow River: ice has stopped its flow;
I can't climb Mount Taihang: the sky is blind with snow.
I can but poise a fishing pole beside a stream
Or set sail for the sun like a sage in a dream.
Hard is the way,
Hard is the way.
Don't go astray!
Whither today?
A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves;
I'll set my cloud-white sail and cross the sea, which raves.

行路难

金樽清酒斗十千
玉盘珍羞值万钱
停杯投箸不能食
拔剑四顾心茫然
欲渡黄河冰塞川
将登太行雪满山
闲来垂钓碧溪上
忽复乘舟梦日边
行路难
行路难
多歧路
今安在
长风破浪会有时
直挂云帆济沧海