Unt it led—t o t he t une of Embroidered Red Shoes

［元］张养浩

佚 名（译）

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 life's 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，作者回首官场中的风波惊险，有万千感慨，更有着深于世故的锐利。