譯作16 微雨即將降臨

【美】莎拉·蒂斯黛爾

2022年06月01日

 

微雨即將降臨，大地也會散發出清新的氣息

燕子在空中盤旋，不時發出優美的叫聲

 

池塘裏的青蛙在夜裏歌唱

野李樹閃爍著白色的光芒

 

知更鳥會穿上火紅色的羽衣

在低矮的鐵絲網柵欄上鳴噪著奇思怪想

 

誰也不會知道這場戰爭

誰也不會關心它會何時結束

 

沒有誰介意，無論鳥還是樹

人類是否會徹底消亡

 

當春天在黎明時醒來

她幾乎不會知道我們已經死去

 

注：此詩寫於1918年，正值德國發動春季攻勢的一戰期間。也正是這一年，全球流感疫情爆發。

       作者表達的是對和平的渴望，當今世界太需要微雨降臨。

 

原文

There Will Come Soft Rains

by Sara Teasdale

 

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

 

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

 

Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

 

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

 

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

 

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.