Cantonese Love-Songs

Cantonese Love-Songs (《嶺南情歌》) 係金文泰喺1904年出版，《粵謳》嘅英文譯本。本書有個引言，講少少歷史、中式音樂、樂理，令到當時嘅西方人更加明白。招子庸寫嘅《粵謳》有九十七題，一佰廿一首。而金文泰嘅譯本全數譯晒九十七首「歌」（Song），而每首歌用羅馬數字 I 到 XCVII 做編號，而唔少歌有幾部份。

例

英文翻譯	粵文原文
頭部份
Quit ye the soul's sorrow Each soul has its sorrow : this ye ought first to quit and cast aside. The soul's sorrow galls : quit it, then there is peace. Wide, wide is the sea of bitterness : ill-fated be more than half      therein : But whoso find joy amid the bitter, theirs is an angel-spirit. If woe and bitterness pass beyond sufferance, then 'tis an evil shift; Though better than that hell which is the judge's gate : it were more       grievous far. Draw back but a step from your petty grief : ocean widens : heaven's       void deepens : no need then to fret yourself. The soul that can quit its thrall truly is as a land of boundless joy. If quittance there be, but quittance be not complete, then exercise       yourselves in secret charity. Aye! But take count of all things : The hoard of a good heart brings no hazard : Look you ! Its far reward is in the life to come, its near reward is      beneath your eyes.	《解心事》 心各有事，總要解脫為先。 心事唔安，解得就了然。 苦海茫茫多數是命蹇， 但向苦中尋樂便是神仙。 若係愁苦到不堪，真係惡算， 總好過官門地獄更重哀憐。 退一步海闊天空就唔使自怨， 心能自解，真正係樂境無邊。 若係解到唔解得通就講過陰隙過便。 唉，凡事檢點， 積善心唔險， 你睇遠報在來生，近報在目前 。

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• Cantonese love-songs by Zhao, Ziyong, ju ren 1816; Clementi, Cecil, Sir, 1875