栖息的鹰
（泰德·休斯/作，张文武/译）
我坐在树林的最高点，闭着双眼。
一动不动。从我钩状的头到我钩状的双爪，
没有虚无的梦：
在睡眠中，也不去演习完美的捕杀和吞食。
这些高高的树木带给我的便利！
空气的浮力和太阳的光线
都对我有利
大地面孔朝上，等着我的检阅
我的双爪固定在粗糙的树皮上。
上天极尽造物之能事
才创造出我的爪子和每一根羽毛
而今我把万物握于爪中
或者凌空飞起，将这一切慢慢地转动——
只要我高兴，我可以随处捕杀，因为这一切都属于我
我的体内没有任何诡辩：
我的习惯是撕掉那些头颅——
死亡的恩典。
我飞行的路线只有一条，直接
贯穿那些生灵的骨骼。
我的权利无须论证：
太阳就在我的身后。
自从我出现，就没有任何改变。
我的眼睛不允许任何改变。
我要让一切就这样保持下去。
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I sit in the top of the
wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
Ted Hughes
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