雨后,娇柔多姿的蘑菇。
我曾在读书时翻译过艾米莉·狄金森的《The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants》,这次试着添一点“古“味。欢迎指正。
《蘑菇——植物的小精灵》
艾米莉·狄金森
蘑菇,乃植物之精灵——
暮色时分,它尚未显形;
晨光初起,松露般的小屋中,
已悄然立于一隅。
仿佛久候于此,
而其一生之程,
短于蛇之迟疑,
疾于野豆之闪。
它是草木间的幻术师——
推辞之因的萌芽——
如泡影先于时间而生,
亦随泡影倏忽而逝。
我仿佛感到,青草亦为之欣然,
因这短暂的中断——
这暗中滋生的枝嗣,
夏日谨慎的私生子。
若自然曾有柔顺之面,
或曾鄙弃一物;
若自然曾有背离者——
那蘑菇,便是其身。
英文原诗:
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants -
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot
As if it tarried always
And yet it’s whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake’s Delay -
And fleeter than a Tare -
’Tis Vegetation’s Juggler -
The Germ of Alibi -
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie -
I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit -
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer’s circumspect.
Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn -
Had Nature an Apostate -
That Mushroom - it is Him!
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