黄河远上白云间,

Where a yellow river climbs to the white clouds,

一片孤城万仞山。

Near the one city-wall among ten-thousand-foot mountains,

羌笛何须怨杨柳,

A Tartar under the willows is lamenting on his flute

春风不度玉门关。

That spring never blows to him through the Jade Pass