通過緑色莖管催動花朵的力 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
詩人: 狄蘭·托馬斯 Dylan Thomas
通過緑色莖管催動花朵的力
催動我的緑色年華，毀滅樹根的力
也是害我的劊子手。
我緘默不語，無法告訴佝僂的玫瑰
正是這同樣的鼕天之熱病毀損了我的青春。
催動泉水擠過岩縫的力催動
我鮮紅的血液；那使絮叨的小溪幹涸的力
使我的血液凝固。
我緘默不語，無法對我的脈管張口，
同一雙嘴唇怎樣吸幹了山泉。
攪動着一泓池水的那一隻手
攪動起流沙；牽引狂風的手
扯動我的屍布船帆。
我緘默不語，無法告訴走上絞架的人
我的肉體製成了絞刑吏的滑石粉。
時間的嘴唇像水蛭吮吸着泉源，
愛情滴落又凝聚，但流下血液
將撫慰她的創癇。
我緘默不語，無法告訴變幻不定的風兒
時間怎樣環繞着繁星鑿出一個天穹。
我緘默不語，無法告訴情人的墓穴
我的床單上也蠕動着一樣的蛆蟲。
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging man
How my clay is made the hangman's lime.
The lips of time leech to the fountain head;
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm. |
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