拒絶哀悼死於倫敦大火中的孩子 A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
詩人: 狄蘭·托馬斯 Dylan Thomas
直到創造人類
主宰禽獸花木
君臨萬物的黑暗
以沉寂宣告最後一縷光明閃現
而那靜止的時辰
來自軛下躁動不安的大海
而我必須再一次進入
水珠圓潤的天庭
和玉蜀黍的猶大教堂
我才能為一個聲音的影子祈禱
或在服喪的幽𠔌之中
播撒我苦澀的種子去哀悼
這個孩子高貴而壯烈的死亡。
我不會去謀殺
她那與嚴峻的真理同行的人性
也不會再以天真
和青春的輓歌
去褻漆瀆生命的港口。
倫敦的女兒與第一批死者同穴深葬，
衆多的至親好友將她裹沒，
永恆的塵粒，母親深色的血管
默默地傍依着冷漠地
涌流不息的泰晤士河。
第一次生命喪失以後，再沒有另一次死亡。
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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