英国作家，诗人哈代以《苔丝》和《无名的裘德》闻名于世。他写过一首the last chrysanthemum，意境与《菊花台》歌词相仿。

 

第一段如下：

 

Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes?
Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.

大意是：为何在百鸟哀鸣，众花凋零的时候，这朵菊花傲然绽放，长久停留？与黄巢的“我花开尽百花杀”异曲同工。

 

中间还有一段写道：

Too late its beauty, lonely thing,
The season's shine is spent,
Nothing remains for it but shivering
In tempests turbulent.

“菊花太美太孤独，当四季光辉耗尽，徒留她在寒风中战栗。” 这一段里，哈代作品里的幽冥与宿命得以充分体现。这也是我喜欢哈代作品的理由。

 

《 菊花台》

 

妳　的淚光　柔弱中帶傷

Your eyes glisten,

tearful and in pain.

慘白的月彎彎　勾住過往

The moon wanes,

And a pale memory remains.

 
夜 　太漫長 　凝結成了霜

Cold nights are long enough

to turn into frosts, icy and rough.

是誰在閣樓上　冰冷的絕望

Who lingers on the stair,

In a chilled despair?

雨 　輕輕彈　朱紅色的窗

Raindrops tap, slight and slow,

In vain on a crimson window.

 

我一生在紙上　 被風吹亂

Already sealed are my ups and downs,

Scattered by the wind of bygones.

 

夢　在遠方 　化成一縷香

into a wisp of smoke distant dreams melt

隨風飄散　妳的模樣

Only in the wind can your face be felt.

 

菊花殘 　滿地傷　妳的笑容已泛黃

Fallen Chrysanthemums strew the ground;

As your saddened smile has turned brown.

花落人斷腸　我心事靜靜躺

Heart-ripping are the scattered flowers，

My bosom laid bare, thoughts in showers.

 

北風亂 　夜未央　妳的影子剪不斷

North wind flutters;

Dawn is yet to come;

in my mind you linger on.

 

徒留我孤單在湖面　成雙

alone by the lake I am afraid to stare

my own shadow straining to feign a pair.

 

花　已向晚　飄落了燦爛

Chrysanthemums fade and cover the floor;

Its prime time is gone and no more.

凋謝的世道上　命運不堪

The world is going down;

And my fate comes to its doom.

 

愁　莫渡江 　秋心拆兩半

never would I cross the autumn river

with many a woe,
怕妳上不了岸　一輩子搖晃

lest for the rest of our life

we would stay afloat.

誰　的江山 　馬蹄聲狂亂

Amid maddening hoove-clatters

whose homeland is in dismay?

我一身的戎裝　呼嘯滄桑

In full armors,

the world is under my sway.

 

天 　微微亮 　妳輕聲的嘆

Morning breaks in a pale sky;
一夜惆悵　如此委婉

Is a sleepless grief all but a sigh?