天净沙（元·严忠济）

宁可少活十年，休得一日无权。大丈夫时乖命蹇。

有朝一日天随人愿，赛田文养客三千！

I'd rather live ten years shorter

than go about one day without power –

just luck is not with the true man.

One day when Heaven followed the will of man,

I'd rival Tian Wen keeping three thousand guests.