拒绝哀悼死于伦敦大火中的孩子 A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
诗人: 狄兰·托马斯 Dylan Thomas
直到创造人类
主宰禽兽花木
君临万物的黑暗
以沉寂宣告最后一缕光明闪现
而那静止的时辰
来自轭下躁动不安的大海
而我必须再一次进入
水珠圆润的天庭
和玉蜀黍的犹大教堂
我才能为一个声音的影子祈祷
或在服丧的幽谷之中
播撒我苦涩的种子去哀悼
这个孩子高贵而壮烈的死亡。
我不会去谋杀
她那与严峻的真理同行的人性
也不会再以天真
和青春的挽歌
去亵漆渎生命的港口。
伦敦的女儿与第一批死者同穴深葬，
众多的至亲好友将她裹没，
永恒的尘粒，母亲深色的血管
默默地傍依着冷漠地
涌流不息的泰晤士河。
第一次生命丧失以后，再没有另一次死亡。
Never until the mankind making
Bird beast and flower
Fathering and all humbling darkness
Tells with silence the last light breaking
And the still hour
Is come of the sea tumbling in harness
And I must enter again the round
Zion of the water bead
And the synagogue of the ear of corn
Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound
Or sow my salt seed
In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn
The majesty and burning of the child's death.
I shall not murder
The mankind of her going with a grave truth
Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath
With any further
Elegy of innocence and youth.
Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter,
Robed in the long friends,
The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,
Secret by the unmourning water
Of the riding Thames.
After the first death, there is no other. |
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