(4) To Dad, on the occasion of his recovering from an ailment (Poynton, UK, 1979)

贈病愈後父親

鷓鴣天

成敗從來不任人

鯀生大禹水方勻

子牙七十先功見

風物長宜後句聞

應似水

莫如焚

含莘苦盡子孫群

詩詞太極餘年渡

病樹冬眠為醒神

Successes and failures are never to one's will:

Father Gun had to wait for his son, Yu,

For the flooding to still.

And Ziya's fame 

In his seventies came. 

Dad, bear this in mind;

Take a view of the long kind.

Be calm like water,

Unlike a sprinter.

Years of labouring gone by,

Now enjoy yourself; don't be shy.

Surrounded by your family,

Why not indulge in poetry and Taichi daily?

After all, a sick tree hibernates in the winter

In order to spring back later!