英诗欣赏：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／罗伯．海瑞克 译／尤克强

美丽的水仙　我流泪看着
你就这样匆匆离去
日出的朝阳仍然在上升
尚未到达正午的盛顶
且留下　且留下
直到白昼也匆匆忙忙
飞奔到那
黄昏祈祷的时候
待我们把晚课都做完
再陪你一道走
我们的生命短暂　如你一般
我们的春光也匆匆
迅速成长却迎向腐烂
如你　或万物
我们死亡
好比你在转眼间　枯干
消无
如夏季的骤雨
或如拂晓的珍露
再无觅处

（此诗为尤克强为纪念自己早逝的弟弟所译。）◇