【楹聯本事：港島跑馬地天主教墳場】
舊照拍攝年份不詳
Marks Mak 製作
「今夕吾軀歸故土，他朝君體也相同」這副對聯的原意，乃出自學者Albinus Alcuinus, c. 735 – 804的詩篇“Ashes and Dust”首二句。前港督金文泰把這二句的意思以中文撰寫，作為香港跑馬地安息地楹聯，此二句遂不脛而走了。
“Ashes and Dust”（作者Albinus Alcuinus, c. 735 – 804）
Quod nunc es fueram, famosus in orbe, viator, et quod nunc ego sum, tuque futurus eris.
Delicias mundi casso sectabar amore, nunc cinis et pulvis, vermibus atque cibus.
quaproter potius animam curare memento, quam carnem, quoniam haec manet, illa perit.
Cur tibi rura paras? quam parvo cernis in antro me tenet hic requies: sic tua parva fiet.
原詩以拉丁文成篇，由夏其龍神父譯為英文。我試把英文版本譯為中文，另名之為《紅塵客夢》，不善處還請方家指正：
《紅塵客夢》Marks MAK中譯
（七律、東韻、平仄舖排以首句「仄起仄收」為正格）
You are now, traveller, what I once was,
and what I am now you will one day become.
滾滾紅塵名利客，南柯夢醒亦相同。
I pursued worldly pleasures with a futile passion,
and here I am now dust and ashes, food for worms.
身軀百歲歸黃土，功過千年散碧空。
For this reason remember to look after the soul
and not your body, for one lasts, the other perishes.
萬古留芳惟正氣，一朝遺臭染歪風。
Why build up your estates? you see in what a cramped tomb
I am here held at rest: thus small will be your own.
死生七尺容身地，誰羡封候六代宮！
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