冬天

冬天

 

冬之鑽石光茫灑滿大地：

就在西方寒冷光環之中，

幻影般紫花朵輕綻誰識

依偎暮光朦朧。

 

幻影般花朵隻片刻存在，

短暫的美麗；星星閃斐斐

寒冷刺心痛：渴望你盛開，

哦，聖光的花蕾。

 

從未可見於感官或情思，

美麗花朵遠綻之地隱秘；

若在內心深處，無法得知，

知道 ，它已遁跡。

 

Winter

 

 

A diamond glow of winter o'er the world:

Amid the chilly halo nigh the west

Flickers a phantom violet bloom unfurled

Dim on the twilight's breast.

 

Only phantasmal blooms but for an hour,

A transient beauty; then the white stars shine

Chilling the heart: I long for thee to flower,

O bud of light divine.

 

But never visible to sense or thought

The flower of Beauty blooms afar withdrawn;

If in our being then we know it not,

Or, knowing, it is gone.

 

 

• by George William Russell (1867 - 1935), "Winter", appears in The Earth Breath and Other Poems, first published 1897