湖中島   /龐德  林木譯

哦上帝，哦維納斯，哦水星，盜賊的守護神，

我懇求你，適當時候，給我一家小煙草店，

裏麵有小亮盒

整齊地堆放在貨架上，

還有散裝的板煙

和煙絲，

還有明亮的弗吉尼亞

散落在明亮的玻璃櫃裏，

和一對秤

不要太油膩，

以及有人路過時順便進來閑聊一兩句，

為一句俏皮話，稍微整理一下頭發。

哦上帝，哦維納斯，哦水星，盜賊的守護神，

借給我一家小煙草店，

或者給我安排任何工作

除了這該死的寫作，

從事這個職業，任何時候都要動腦子。

The Lake Isle   /Azra Pound

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,

    Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,

    With the little bright boxes

                piled up neatly upon the shelves

    And the loose fragment cavendish

                and the shag,

    And the bright Virginia

                loose under the bright glass cases,

    And a pair of scales

             not too greasy,

 And the votailles dropping in for a word or two in passing,

 For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.

     O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,

 Lend me a little tobacco-shop,

             or install me in any profession

 Save this damn'd profession of writing,

             where one needs one's brains all the time.