这土石重积的北芒山上，
高陵有四五。
Four or five of them are grandest of the clan. And if you ask me who is buried here,
耸立着四五座高高的古陵。
借问谁家坟？
I say the man is either king or peer. The royal tombs rise high and far between,
若问这是谁人的坟墓，
皆云汉世主。
Overgrown with wild grass lush and green. In riotous years, upheavals rose in the court;
恭文遥相望，
恭陵和文陵遥遥相对，
Like jackals and tigers, those usurpers fought. Seriously damaged were more than one grave;
原陵郁肮肮。
光武帝的陵墓上草木繁盛。
Then, from the hall the diggers dug the cave. They robbed the king's remains of jewelry coats;
季世丧乱起，
汉王朝的末年丧乱四起，
The pearls were robbed and plundered by cutthroats. There remains the debris of mausoleum halls;
贼盗如豺虎。
盗贼如狼似虎天下横行。
There remains nothing of the former walls. Thorns and thistles overgrow the tombs,
毁壤过一抔，
被毁坏的陵墓何止一座，
With paths where urchin plays and scholar roams. Hares and foxes dig their holes in the graveyards,