A Pause 暫停 （英詩中譯）

A Pause

文/【英】克麗絲蒂娜·羅賽蒂

（原詩五步抑揚格；前8行抱韻，後6行交韻：ABBAABBACDCDCD。譯詩采ABBAABBABBBBBB韻式）

他們用花和葉使內室芬芳甘甜，
且用花使床生香我在花上臥躺。
當我靈，被愛所縛，一路遊蕩。
我沒有聽到鳥兒飛繞靠近屋簷，
也沒聽到收割者在禾捆間交談：
唯有我的靈一天又一天在守望，
我幹渴的靈總守候他他在遠方：
我想，他或愛，或憶，或心酸。
許久樓梯那兒傳來腳步的聲響，
那隻蒼老熟悉的手在鎖上摸放
然後我精神似乎首次嗅到天堂
的氣息；然後首次見沙子金黃
自沙漏緩緩流出；我覺我頭上
頭發披上榮耀，且我靈在膨脹。

They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves,
And the bed sweet with flowers on which I lay;
While my soul, love-bound, loitered on its way.
I did not hear the birds about the eaves,
Nor hear the reapers talk among the sheaves:
Only my soul kept watch from day to day,
My thirsty soul kept watch for one away: --
Perhaps he loves, I thought, remembers, grieves.
At length there came the step upon the stair,
Upon the lock the old familiar hand:
Then first my spirit seemed to scent the air
Of Paradise; then first the tardy sand
Of time ran golden; and I felt my hair
Put on a glory, and my soul expand