The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
by W.B. Yeats (葉慈 1865-1939) 

I heard the old, old men say,

"Everything alters,

And one by one we drop away."

They had hands like claws, and their knees

Were twisted like the old thorn-trees

By the waters.

I heard the old, old men say.

"All that's beautiful drifts away

Like the waters."

在水邊思慕自己的老人
翻譯: 艾莉卡

我聽見垂垂老矣的長者說:

"每件事物都改變了,

一個接著一個,我們也會離開"

他們的手就像爪子一樣

而扭曲的膝蓋

像水邊的老棘樹

我聽見那些垂垂老矣的長者說:
 
"所有的美麗過往,都像流水一樣

飄零而逝"

I Felt a Funeral in My Brain（腦海中的葬禮）
Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)

作者：艾蜜莉‧狄金森
翻譯：艾莉卡

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading—treading –till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through—

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a drum—
Kept beating—beating—till I thought
My Mind was going numb—

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul,
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space——began to toll,
As all the heavens were a bell,
And being but an ear,
And I and silence some strange race
Wrecked solitary here.

And then a plank in reason broke,
And I dropped down and down
And hit a world at every plunge,
And finished knowing then.



腦海中的葬禮

在我的腦海裡，體驗一場葬禮，
哀悼者來來去去
不停地 踩、踏、踩、踏——直到好似
突破了感官的覺知——

當大家都坐下來，
儀式便開始——像擊鼓般
不斷地 咚、咚、響起——直到我以為
我的心思已麻木——

然後我聽見他們抬起棺木
木板尖銳的嘰嘎聲 穿梭過我的魂魄
踩著那些笨重的鉛靴，再次地，
像喪鐘在虛空中——響亮，
彷彿天空是一個大鈴鐘，
而我只剩下聽覺，
我與沉靜之間的微妙競逐
劃破此時的孤寂

棺木於焉破裂，
而我便墜落~墜落~
在每個墜落驟降處，都撞擊到不同的世界，
然後便失去知覺。

The Road Not Taken
作者 :Robert Frost(1874-1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


未行之路

作者：羅伯特‧弗羅斯特
翻譯者：艾莉卡

在黃色樹林裡，兩條路分岐，
遺憾的是，我不能兩條路都經歷
身為旅者的我佇立良久
竭盡目力，觀看其一通往何方
然而那路，卻於樹叢處轉彎。

走另一條路，風景一樣優美，
也許對我是更好的機會，
因為它雜草叢生，似乎沒有走過的痕跡；
雖然在我佇立的地方
到這兩條岔路上，走過的足跡都一樣，

而今天早晨，兩條路依舊
落葉荒蕪，人跡寂寥。
哦！改天我再選另一條路而行吧！
未知此路將引領我去向何方，
也未知我是否有再回來的指望。

多年後，在與這世界道別之時，
我將帶著感嘆，敘說著我的故事：
在叢林裡有兩條路分歧，而我--
我走上了人跡罕至的那一條路，
而成就了全然不同的結局。

(英詩翻譯, 作者已遺忘)
I meant to do my work today—
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterly litted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.


And the wind went sighing over the land
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand—
So what could I do but laugh and go？


呼 喚

(翻譯者: 艾莉卡)

今日我原本打算工作—
然而蘋果樹上，棕色鳥兒在歌唱，
還有蝴蝶翩翩，在草原上飛掠，
彷彿所有樹葉都在我身邊呼喚.


風的嘆息飄過大地，
來來回回撫觸著草原，
彩虹高舉著閃耀的手臂
所以，我除了開懷離去，還能再做些什麼？

多年前翻譯的英詩，
作者是誰已遺忘

I saw dawn creep across the sky,
And all the gull go flying by.
I saw the sea put on its dress
Of blue mid-summer loveliness,


And heard the trees begin to stir
Green arms of pine and juniper.
I heard the wind call out and say：
〝Get up, my dear, it is to-day！ 〞


夏 之 晨
(翻譯者: 艾莉卡)

我看見黎明升起，越過天空
所有海鷗亦飛翔而過
我看見大海盛裝打扮
用那充滿魅力的仲夏湛藍


我還聽見樹木開始騷動
杜松的綠枝搖曳生姿
也聽見颯颯風聲，似乎在說：
「起來吧！我的愛，晨曦已來！」