The waning moon hangs on a sparse plane tree;
漏斷人初靜。
the sound of sand timer stops while people calm down by degree .
誰見幽人獨往來，
Who sees a lonely man strolling up and down in grief?
縹緲孤鴻影。
Must it be a single goose dimly seen above?
驚起卻回頭，
Startled, it turns its head;
有恨無人省。
laments a woe none behold.
揀盡寒枝不肯棲，
Gleaning, it will not perch on branches withered;
寂寞沙洲冷。
alights on the cold sandbank alone instead.
