世界變遷中的鳥類學

看見一首Robert Penn Warren的詩，喜歡原文但不喜歡直譯，我來試試一個意譯的版本。

原文地址：http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/70s/714480.html

意譯的版本：

《世界變遷中的鳥類學》

 

那隻不過是一隻不知名的鳥兒在夜色中啼鳴

當我從泉邊汲水歸來，穿過屋後布滿岩石的牧地

我悄然佇立（心如止水）水桶中的倒影比夜空更為靜謐

 

多年過後，滄海桑田容顏褪變，多少人已經死去

我站在遼遠的土地上，夜色依舊，我終於知道我懷念著

那鳥鳴中（天籟般的）寂靜勝過那些注定消逝的東西

 

詩歌原文：

Ornithology in a World of Flux.

It was only a bird call at evening, unidentified,
As I came from the spring with water, across the rocky back-pasture;
But so still I stood sky above was not stiller than sky in pail-water.

Years pass, all places and faces fade, some people have died,
And I stand in a far land, the evening still, and am at last sure
That I miss more that stillness at bird-call than some things
that were to fail later.