秋瑾 休言女子非英物 夜夜龍泉壁上鳴！Down the slope slippery Sliding is m’beloved Country!

         《祖國沉淪感不禁》 秋瑾

     祖國沉淪感不禁， 閒來海外覓知音。

     金甌已缺總須補， 為國犧牲敢惜身。

     嗟險阻，嘆飄零， 關山萬里作雄行。

     休言女子非英物， 夜夜龍泉壁上鳴！

"Down the slope slippery

  Sliding is m’beloved Country!"

-- by Qiū Jǐn（1875～1907）
     the first female Chinese revolutionary martyred
     towards the dying days of the Manchu Dynasty   

-- Translated by Frank C Yue 

Down the slope slippery

     Sliding is m’beloved Country!

There goes my lament boundless --

     I need to seek and find

More like-minded Comrades fine,

     While travelling aboard listless.

The broken golden vase, you see,

     Soon mended it must be.

For my Country: Die

     Willingly will I!

So lonesome, with obstacles in piles,

     For thousands of miles,

Upon thousands of miles,

     I will trudge on un-beguiled.

O Do not ever tell me –

   Fighting as well as men, women can’t be!

My sharp sword hanging on 
                                   the wall each night      

    Cries out most eagerly for a good fight!