端午日賜衣

　　杜甫

　　宮衣亦有名，端午被恩榮。

　　細葛含風軟，香羅疊雪輕。

　　自天題處濕，當暑著來清。

　　意內(nèi)稱長短，終身荷圣情。

　　A Presentation of Clothes on the Duanwu Festival*

　　Du Fu

　　For palace robes even my name was there,

　　on Duanwu I received the glory of his grace.

　　Fine threaded linen, so soft that the breeze gets in,

　　fragrant gossamer, light as layered snow.

　　Coming from the emperor, still wet where the writing is,

　　wearing these in hot weather one is cool.

　　He took consideration to measure the length,

　　all my life I will be obligated to His Majesty’s feelings.

　　*The fifth day of the fifth month, the Dragon Boat festival. It was customary that the emperor distributed summer clothes to his court officials on this day.

　　(Stephen Owen 譯)