[元]张养浩
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 lifes short span!
弄世界机关识破,
叩天门意气消磨,
人潦倒青山慢嵯峨。
前面有千古远,
后头有万年多,
量半炊时成得甚么。
《朱履曲·无题》是元代著名政治家、文学家张养浩的作品。本曲写于作者被罢官之后,作者回首官場中的风波惊险,有万千感慨,更有着深于世故的锐利。