重临
威廉·叶兹［英］
Translated by ©H.L.Glennie
旋转旋转漩涡扩展增进
猎鹰听不见主人号令 ；
万物分崩离析；中心不再屹立；
无政府状态举世漫溢，
到处是鲜血一闪一闪的红潮
纯真之仪已经沉沦；
优秀者缺乏信心，低劣者
发满激情的强音。
当然某些启示在显现：
显然天意重临在即。
天意重临啊！语辞难以描述
一个源于普世精神的巨大影像
扰乱我的视界：在大漠之沙的某一处
一个形状带着人头与狮身，
一个盯视犹如太阳空茫无情，
它缓慢移动着大腿，而周遭却是
一轮又一轮沙漠鸟群愤怒的阴翳。
黑夜再次降落；但如今我知
僵眠的二十世纪
已被一只摇滚的摇篮绕进恶梦，
多么粗暴的野兽啊，它的时辰终于来临，
朝着伯利恒伛偻前行祈望重生？
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mandi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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