秋頌(To Autumn)短文閱讀
濟慈,全名約翰·濟慈(John Keats),出生於18世紀末年的倫敦,他是傑出的英詩作家之一,也是浪漫派的主要成員。他的墓誌銘寫着:Here lies one,whose name was written in water.(此地長眠者,聲名水上書。)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun,
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
霧氣洋溢、果實圓熟的秋,
你和成熟的太陽成爲友伴;
你們密謀用累累的珠球,
綴滿茅屋檐下的葡萄藤蔓;
使屋前的老樹揹負着蘋果,
讓熟味透進果實的心中,
使葫蘆脹大,鼓起了榛子殼,
好塞進甜核;又爲了蜜蜂
一次一次開放過遲的花朵,
使它們以爲日子將永遠暖和,
因爲夏季早填滿它們的粘巢。
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair sort-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Dows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
誰不經常看見你伴着穀倉?
在田野裏也可以把你找到,
彌有時隨意坐在打麥場上,
讓髮絲隨着簸谷的風輕飄;
有時候,爲罌粟花香所沉迷,
你倒臥在收割一半的田壟,
讓鐮刀歇在下一畦的花旁;
或者.像拾穗人越過小溪,
你昂首揹着谷袋,投下倒影,
或者就在榨果架下坐幾點鐘,
你耐心地瞧着徐徐滴下的酒漿。
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a waiful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles form a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
啊.春日的歌哪裏去了?
但不要想這些吧,你也有你的音樂
當波狀的雲把將逝的一天映照,
以胭紅抹上殘梗散碎的田野,
這時啊,河柳下的一羣小飛蟲
就同奏哀音,它們忽而飛高,
忽而下落,隨着微風的起滅;
籬下的蟋蟀在歌唱,在園中
紅胸的知更鳥就羣起呼哨;
而羣羊在山圈裏高聲默默咩叫;
叢飛的燕子在天空呢喃不歇。