好夜晚
丘陵上空云雀的鸣叫已远在身后；
我再也听不见郊区的那些夜莺；
城里花园中画眉和乌鸫的歌喉
唱也徒然：人畜和机器众声嚣腾。
但是不熟悉的街道里儿童的喊声
以一种熟悉的傍晚回声在回荡，
甜美如夜莺或云雀的啭鸣，完成
陌生的欢迎魔法，我仿佛国王
置身于成人、牲畜、机器、禽鸟、儿童
和回声中活、回声中死的幽灵之间。
这城市无友却友好；无家，我也不迷茫；
尽管这些家门无一认识，所见皆生脸。
也许过了明天以后，我再也见不到
这些朴素的街道，这些教堂亮灯的窗，
其间的男人、女人和儿童亦已杳渺：
然而这是“众友之夜”，旅人的好夜晚。
Good-Night
The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down;
I can hear no more those suburb nightingales;
Thrushes and blackbirds sing in the gardens of the town
In vain: the noise of man, beast, and machine prevails.
But the call of children in the unfamiliar streets
That echo with a familiar twilight echoing,
Sweet as the voice of nightingale or lark, completes
A magic of strange welcome, so that I seem a king
Among man, beast, machine, bird, child, and the ghost
That in the echo lives and with the echo dies.
The friendless town is friendly; homeless, I am not lost;
Though I know none of these doors, and meet but strangers' eyes.
Never again, perhaps, after to-morrow, shall
I see these homely streets, these church windows alight,
Not a man or woman or child among them all:
But it is All Friends' Night, a traveller's good-night.
看这两首诗吧，一首翻译，一首原作。原作与翻译都是有韵的，原作的韵很奇妙，但是翻译了之后就很呆板。而且原作的节奏，抑扬顿挫感也要好很多。 |
发表于 2016-3-7 11:41
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