I SEE THE BOYS OF SUMMER
Ⅰ
I see the boys of summer in their ruin
Lay the gold tithings barren，
Setting no store by harvest，freeze the soils；
There in their heat the winter foods
Of frozen loves they fetch their girls，
And drown the cargoed apples in their tides．
These boys of light are curdlers in their folly，
Sour the boiling honey；
The jacks of frost they finger in the hives；
There in the sun the frigid threads
Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves；
The signal moon is zero in their voids．
I see the summer children in their mothers
Split up the brawned womb's weathers，
Divide the night and day with fairy thumbs；
There in the deep with quartered shades
Of sun and moon they paint their dams
As sunlight paints the shelling of their heade．
I see that from these boys shall men of nothing
Stature by seedy shifting，
Or lame the air with leaping from its hearts；
There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse
Of love and light bursts in their throats．
O see the pulse of summer in the ice．
Ⅱ
But seasons must be challenged or they totter
Into a chiming quarter
Where，punctual as death，we ring the stars；
There，in his night，the black-tongued bells
The sleepy man of winter pulls，
Nor blows back moon-and-midnight as she blows．
We are the dark deniers，let us summon
Death from a summer woman，
A muscling life from lovers in their cramp，
From the fair dead who flush the sea
The bright-eyed worm on Davy's lamp，
And from the planted womb the man of straw．
We summer boys in this four-winded spinning，
Green of the sea weeds' iron，
Hold up the noisy sea and drop her birds，
Pick the world's ball of wave and froth
To choke the deserts with her tides，
And comb the county gardens for a wreath．
In Spring we cross our foreheads with the holly，
Heigh ho the blood and berry，
And nail the merry squires to the trees；
Here love's damp muscle dries and dies，
Here break a kiss in no love's quarry．
O see the poles of promise in the boys．
Ⅲ
I see you boys of summer in your ruin．
Man in his maggot's barren．
And boys are full and foreign in the pouch．
I am the man your father was．
We are the sons of flint and pitch．
O see the poles are kissing as they cross．作者: 胡元肇 时间: 2018-6-15 15:06
通过种子的变化
我看出男孩将长成一无是处的男人，
或跳出热气使空气瘫痪；
他们心中伏天的脉搏
用爱与光充塞他们的咽喉
哦，看冰中搏动的夏天。 作者: 朱峰 时间: 2018-6-15 19:33
这首翻译起来有难度, 译文还是比较流畅自然的。
I see the boys of summer in their ruin
Lay the gold tithings barren，
Setting no store by harvest，freeze the soils；
There in their heat the winter foods
Of frozen loves they fetch their girls，
And drown the cargoed apples in their tides．
These boys of light are curdlers in their folly，
Sour the boiling honey；
The jacks of frost they finger in the hives；
There in the sun the frigid threads
Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves；
The signal moon is zero in their voids．
I see the summer children in their mothers
Split up the brawned womb's weathers，
Divide the night and day with fairy thumbs；
There in the deep with quartered shades
Of sun and moon they paint their dams
As sunlight paints the shelling of their heads．
I see that from these boys shall men of nothing
Stature by seedy shifting，
Or lame the air with leaping from its heats；
There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse
Of love and light bursts in their throats．
O see the pulse of summer in the ice．
Ⅱ
But seasons must be challenged or they totter
Into a chiming quarter
Where，punctual as death，we ring the stars；
There，in his night，the black-tongued bells
The sleepy man of winter pulls，
Nor blows back moon-and-midnight as she blows．
We are the dark deniers let us summon
Death from a summer woman，
A muscling life from lovers in their cramp，
From the fair dead who flush the sea
The bright-eyed worm on Davy's lamp，
And from the planted womb the man of straw．
We summer boys in this four-winded spinning，
Green of the sea weeds' iron，
Hold up the noisy sea and drop her birds，
Pick the world's ball of wave and froth
To choke the deserts with her tides，
And comb the county gardens for a wreath．
In Spring we cross our foreheads with the holly，
Heigh ho the blood and berry，
And nail the merry squires to the trees；
Here love's damp muscle dries and dies，
Here break a kiss in no love's quarry．
O see the poles of promise in the boys．
Ⅲ
I see you boys of summer in your ruin．
Man in his maggot's barren．
And boys are full and foreign in the pouch．
I am the man your father was．
We are the sons of flint and pitch．
O see the poles are kissing as they cross．