Afterflakes
雪後冰花
In the thick of a teeming snowfall
在一場鵝毛大雪的厚重中
I saw my shadow on snow.
雪麵上我曾見我的陰影。
I turned and looked back up at the sky,
我轉過身又向上回望天空，
Where we still look to ask the why
至今我們仍看向那裏詢問
Of everything below.
為什麽有地上的各樣事情？
If I shed such a darkness,
若是我投射出這樣的黑暗，
If the reason was in me,
假若我是這黑暗的原因，
That shadow of mine should show in form
我的陰影當以別樣的形態呈現
Against the shapeless shadow of storm,
相對於這暴風雪無形的陰影，
How swarthy I must be.
我該有多麽的黑暗。
I turned and looked back upward.
我轉過身又向上回望，
The whole sky was blue;
整個天空一片湛藍；
And the thick flakes floating at a pause
厚厚的雪花，紛飛已停
Were but frost knots on an airy gauze,
不過是透氣的紗布上結的霜冰，
With the sun shining through.
太陽從中穿透，射出耀眼的光明。
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
