英詩欣賞：To Daffodils

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.

致水仙
文／羅伯．海瑞克 譯／尤克強

美麗的水仙　我流淚看著
你就這樣匆匆離去
日出的朝陽仍然在上升
尚未到達正午的盛頂
且留下　且留下
直到白晝也匆匆忙忙
飛奔到那
黃昏祈禱的時候
待我們把晚課都做完
再陪你一道走
我們的生命短暫　如你一般
我們的春光也匆匆
迅速成長卻迎向腐爛
如你　或萬物
我們死亡
好比你在轉眼間　枯乾
消無
如夏季的驟雨
或如拂曉的珍露
再無覓處

（此詩為尤克強為紀念自己早逝的弟弟所譯。）◇