Bilingual Window: Poetry in English and Chinese: 某一晚我走出门去 Chinese Translation: As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden

Saturday, December 2, 2017

某一晚我走出门去 Chinese Translation: As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden

某一晚我走出门去 As I Walked Out One Evening
［英］维斯坦 · 奥登 by W. H. Auden
英诗中译：牛娃娃 Translated by ©H.L.Glennie
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维斯坦·奥登（1907年2月22日至1973年9月29日），生于英国，在世时人生足迹踏遍全球很多国家，也包括中国。他是个很多产的诗人和作家，他的诗涉及面广泛，涵盖心理、宗教、感情、政治、文化和社会等很多方面。他的诗以音律和技术精湛见长，但他的诗风形式多样，既对英诗的传统格式驾轻就熟，又对晦涩的现代诗样式游刃有余。

©H.L.Glennie

As I Walked Out One Evening

As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.

And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
‘Love has no ending.

‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

‘I’ll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.

‘The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.'

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

‘In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.

‘In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.

‘Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver’s brilliant bow.

‘O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you’ve missed.

‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.

‘Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.

‘O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.

‘O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.'

It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.

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