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泰德·休斯 (1930 - 1998)

七种悲伤

 

秋天的第一种悲伤

是花园缓慢的告别，在黄昏静静伫立——

一只褐色的罂粟花头

和一株百合花梗，

久久不能离去。

 

第二种悲伤

是一只雉鸟徒然的双脚，

他挂在一只钩子上，和他的伙伴们一起。

那金色的林地

掺杂着羽毛，

它的头被装进一只袋子。

 

第三种悲伤

是太阳缓慢的告别，它召集鸟类归巢

而鸟类召集暮晚的时刻，

那金色神圣的

壮美大地。

 

第四种悲伤

是变黑的池塘

荒废而沉陷的水中城市——

甲虫的宫殿，

蜻蜓的

地下墓穴。

 

第五种悲伤

是林地缓慢的告别，静静拆散它的营帐。

时间又去了一日。

仅只留下垃圾——

柴火，搭帐篷的柱子。

 

第六种悲伤

是狐狸的悲伤

猎人们快乐，猎犬的快乐，

蹄脚不住地拍打，

最后大地对它的祈求

闭上了耳朵。

 

第七种悲伤

是面孔缓慢的告别，以窗户中显现的皱纹，

当一年又卷起行李

像一个破旧的露天游乐场

曾经给孩子们快乐。

(李晖  译)

 

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998 / West Yorkshire / England)

The Seven Sorrows

 

The first sorrow of autumn

Is the slow goodbye

Of the garden who stands so long in the evening-

A brown poppy head,

The stalk of a lily,

And still cannot go.

The second sorrow

Is the empty feet

Of a pheasant who hangs from a hook with his brothers.

The woodland of gold

Is folded in feathers

With its head in a bag.

And the third sorrow

Is the slow goodbye

Of the sun who has gathered the birds and who gathers

The minutes of evening,

The golden and holy

Ground of the picture.

 

The fourth sorrow

Is the pond gone black

Ruined and sunken the city of water-

The beetle's palace,

The catacombs

Of the dragonfly.

And the fifth sorrow

Is the slow goodbye

Of the woodland that quietly breaks up its camp.

One day it's gone.

It has only left litter-

Firewood, tentpoles.

And the sixth sorrow

Is the fox's sorrow

The joy of the huntsman, the joy of the hounds,

The hooves that pound

Till earth closes her ear

To the fox's prayer.

And the seventh sorrow

Is the slow goodbye

Of the face with its wrinkles that looks through the window

As the year packs up

Like a tatty fairground

That came for the children.