Daffodils

Daffodils (1804)
By William Wordsworth
水仙花
威廉、华滋尔斯
I wander´d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
我孤独地漫游，像朵云
高高地飘过溪谷与山峦
突然地，我瞧见一大簇
一整簇的黄金般的水仙花

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
在湖边，在各种树下，
在微风中摆动与舞蹈，
像闪亮的群星般绵延开来
有如闪烁在天上银河间

They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
她们展开，像永无止尽的行列，
沿着海湾的边缘。
成千上万，我一眼就瞥见
轻盈曼舞，搔头弄姿

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
她们旁边的波浪也舞蹈，但是她们
欢欣鼓舞地远胜过灿烂的波浪，
连诗人也不禁随之欢喜起来，
跟如此兴高采烈的伴侣

I gazed — and gazed — but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
我凝视—又凝视—但是几乎没有想到
这样的展示曾经带给我多么大的财富
因为往往，我躺卧在我的长椅上，
带着空虚或忧郁的心情，
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
她们闪亮在我的内在的灵眼里，
那是孤独时享有的幸福
那时，我的心灵充满了欢乐，
随着水仙花，与她们共舞。

雄伯译

DANDELIONS
蒲公英花

(with apologies to William Wordsworth)
by Harry Hennessey Buerkett
布凯特根据威廉、华滋尔斯改写。

I wondered, my brain in a cloud
Of green and yellow ganglions,
How came my yard to have this shroud,
This horde, of horrid dandelions;

我狐疑，我的脑处于一层的
绿色与黄色的神经瘤之间
我的庭院怎会有这样苍白，
这一大簇的可怕的蒲公英

Perhaps from taproots deep as trees’,
Or parachuted on a breeze.
Insidious are their fecund needs
(They know no God to curb their sin),

或许来自像树一般的深根，
或乘着微风慢慢飘落。
她们繁殖的需要蠢蠢欲动
（它们不知道上帝在遏止它们的罪）

Ejaculating endless seeds,
Which all sprout, much to my chagrin:
Ten-thousand saw I at a glance,
Which doubtless fueled my fearsome dance!

喷射出无尽的种子，
它们到处滋长，令我困窘不堪，
成千上万，我一眼瞥见，
它们无疑地助长我可怕的飞舞

But waves of nausea overcame
My urge to dig them, one by one;
I’d sprayed the yard, but just the same,
They’d mocked me, as they mock the sun.

但是一阵又一阵的呕吐压制了
我挖掘它们的渴望，一簇又一簇地，
我喷洒除草剂，但是情况依然
它们嘲笑我，如同它们嘲笑太阳。

I gaze—I’m dazed—my eyelids droop
To what new low must I now stoop
To rid my yard of this disease?
Could I sod yet another layer?

我凝视—我晕眩—我的眼皮垂落
我现在必须屈服到怎样的新的卑微，
才能将我的庭院的这些疾病消除？
我如何才能滋生另外的一层表皮？

Or should I get down on my knees
And offer penitential prayer
To honor fathers and the scions—
And wallow in the dandelions?

或者，我应该双膝跪下
从事深深悔罪的祈祷，
为了尊荣祖先及那些后裔
然后沉迷于这些蒲公英花?

Dandelion
蒲公英花
by Evaleen Stein
艾凡琳、史坦恩
Hey-a-day-a-day, my dear!
Dandelion time!
Come, and let us make for them
a pretty little rhyme!
嗨，一天又一天，我的亲亲！
蒲公英花时刻！
前来吧！让我们前往她们那里，
一首美丽的小诗！

See the meadows twinkling now,
beautiful and bright
As the sky when through
the blue shine the stars at night!
看见草地的闪烁着
现在是美丽而璨烂
如同天空，当经由
蓝天间，群星在夜晚闪耀

Once upon a time, folks say,
mighty kings of old
Met upon a splendid field
called “The Cloth of Gold.”

从前从前，有人说，
古老的伟大国王们
他们的会面的场地，被称为
「是由黄金所铺造」

But, we wonder, could it be
there was ever seen
Brighter gold than glitters
now in our meadows green?

但是我们狐疑，这怎么可能，
我们何曾看见过
比现在更为耀眼闪亮的黄金
在我们的绿油油的草地上？

Dandelions, dandelions,
shining through the dew,
Let the kings have Cloth of Gold,
but let us have you!

蒲公英，蒲公英，闪亮
在露水之间。
让国王们拥有黄金服，
但是我们仅要拥有你！

雄伯译
32hsiung@pchome.com.tw
https://springhero.wordpress.com

Dandelion
蒲公英花
by Evaleen Stein
艾凡琳、史坦恩
Hey-a-day-a-day, my dear! Dandelion time!
Come, and let us make for them a pretty little rhyme!
嗨，一天又一天，我的亲亲！
蒲公英花时刻！
前来吧！让我们前往她们那里，
一首美丽的小诗！

See the meadows twinkling now, beautiful and bright
As the sky when through the blue shine the stars at night!
看见草地的闪烁着
现在是美丽而璨烂
如同天空，当经由
蓝天间，群星在夜晚闪耀

Once upon a time, folks say, mighty kings of old
Met upon a splendid field called “The Cloth of Gold.”

从前从前，有人说，
古老的伟大国王们
他们的会面的场地，被称为
「是由黄金所铺造」

But, we wonder, could it be there was ever seen
Brighter gold than glitters now in our meadows green?

但是我们狐疑，这怎么可能，
我们何曾看见过
比现在更为耀眼闪亮的黄金
在我们的绿油油的草地上？

Dandelions, dandelions, shining through the dew,
Let the kings have Cloth of Gold, but let us have you!

蒲公英，蒲公英，闪亮
在露水之间。
让国王们拥有黄金服，
但是我们仅要拥有你！

雄伯译
32hsiung@pchome.com.tw
https://springhero.wordpress.com

尤利西斯

Ulysses by Lord Tennyson 丁尼生：尤利西斯

Translated by Springhero 雄伯譯

32hsiung@pchome.com.tw

 

It little profits that an idle king,

By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

 

百無聊賴莫過當個閑散王

爐邊靜悄悄，峭壁也荒涼

老妻相伴，我發號施令

這些蠻荒子民總算擺得平

只是他們畜積吃睡，哪知道我心？

 

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink

Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed

Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those

That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when

Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades

Vexed the dim sea. I am become a name;

 

我無法休息不遠遊，告別避風處

生命始酣暢。沿途中我曾歡喜雀躍

曾痛苦難當，或與愛我夥伴，或獨行

狂風暴雨中疾航越過

暗黑的海域，我已成知名人物。

 

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Much have I seen and known—cities of men

And manners, climates, councils, governments,

Myself not least, but honored of them all–

And drunk delight of battle with my peers,

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

 

因為飢渴的心總是在漫遊

城邦我去過，民情我熟稔

外加風俗、氣候、議會跟政府

不乏眾望所歸者，我亦忝列；

我曾與戰友暢享戰鬥的歡樂

在那遙遠的特洛平原，風沙中刀劍鏗鏘。

 

I am a part of all that I have met:

Yet all experience is an arch where through

Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades

Forever and forever when I move.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!!

 

所見所識，我是參與的一份子

可是所經所歷猶如拱廊閃爍著

尚未旅行過的世界光輝，邊緣逐漸消退

隨著我永遠不斷前進。

多麼沉悶，若是停頓安逸下來

若是聽任生鏽黯淡，不再煥發光輝！

 

As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life

Were all too little, and of one to me

Little remains; but every hour is saved

From the eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

For some three suns to store and hoard myself,

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

 

好似能呼吸就是活著！一代傳一代

對我太過於瑣碎，太一成不變

沒什麼好自負；但是每個時刻不同於

永恆的沉默，若嘗試更多

新鮮事物源源不絕；這是多麼暴殄

讓我心中的三個太陽貯藏起來

我灰黯的精神熱切渴望

追尋知識，像顆逐漸沉落的星

要越過人類思想的最遠疆域。

 

  This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the scepter and the isle—

Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill

This labor, by slow prudence to make mild

A rugged people, and through soft degrees

Subdue them to the useful and the good.

 

這是我兒子，鐵立馬丘士

我傳與他權杖與島嶼

他受我鍾愛，明辨履行職務

謹慎翼翼，教化蠻荒子民

恩威並施，使他們做有用之事

善良的行為

 

Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere

Of common duties, decent not to fail

In offices of tenderness, and pay

Meet adoration to my household gods,

When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.

 

幾乎無可挑剔，他專心一意於

這些日常職責，不敢稍有疏忽

在伺服神明方面，他奉獻祭拜

對於家祠諸神恭敬有加

即使我不在家中。我倆各有其職。

 

There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;

There gloom like the dark, broad seas. My mariners,

Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me—

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed

Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;

 

港口就在那兒，船隻已張帆

朝黯黑的汪洋大海。我的水手

曾與我一同勞苦工作，目標相同的伙伴

帶著興高采烈的歡欣，承受日曬

及雷雨，欣然承受的

是自由的心跟自由的前額，

如今你與我皆老矣！

 

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.

Death closes all; but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.

‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

 

老年人依舊有他的榮譽跟勞苦，

死亡覆蓋一切，但是結束之前尚有可為

高貴名聲的作為依舊待我完成

人與眾神爭競誰較不朽並非不宜。

陽光開始從山岩上頭黯淡閃爍

長日將盡，月亮緩慢上升

海洋深處濤聲哀哀。來吧，朋友！

尋找一個新的世界猶不嫌遲。

 

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

 

揚帆，大家各就各位，用力划槳

乘風破浪前進，我的目標是要

航向落日的那一端，沐浴於

所有西方的星辰之下，永不罷休。

也許，灣流會將我們沖走

也許，我們將抵達快樂之島

跟我們相識的英雄阿提立相會。

 

Though much is taken, much abides and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are—

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

 

雖然我們喪失許多，仍然還有許多

雖然我們的力氣不再像以前那樣

可以撼天震地，我們依舊，依舊

同樣為英雄的情懷所引誘

時間跟命運使我們虛弱，但是意志堅強

要奮鬥、要尋求、要探險、永不屈服。

我結束我開始

The Four Quartet by Thomas Eliot

Translated by Springhero 雄伯

32hsiung@pchome.com.tw

 

East Coker 東和村

 

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older,

The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated

Of dead and living. Not the intense moment

Isolated, with no before and after,

But a lifetime burning in every moment

And not the lifetime of one man only

But of old stones that cannot be deciphered,

There is a time for the evening under starlight,

As time for the evening under lamplight

( The evening with the photograph album).

Love is most nearly itself

When here and now cease to matter.

 

家是我們開始之地。隨我們成長，

世界變得更陌生，變得更複雜的

是生者與死者的形態，非激情時刻

彼此孤立，無過往，無未來。

但一生卻又是燃燒於每一刻，

而且還不僅是一個人的一生，

無法理解的墓銘薪傳亦是。

星光下的夜晚是燃燒時刻

如同燈火中的夜晚是燃燒時刻

（瀏覽相片簿的夜晚）

愛最近乎真實

忘懷此地何地，今夕何夕。

 

Old men ought to be explorers

Here or there does not matter

We must be still and still moving

Into another intensity

For a further union, a deeper communion

Through the dark cold and the empty desolation.

The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

 

老年人應該去當探險家

去到哪裡都無所謂

我們就是必須不斷地前進

進入另一個強烈激情的時刻

與天地精神更加契合，更加融為一體

穿過黑暗的寒冷，空洞的荒涼

海濤在呼號，風在呼號，那廣大海域

是海燕與海豚的居所。我的結束亦是開始。