烏鴉

[美]埃德加·愛倫·坡

2021年9月9日星期四

 

透過黑暗，窺視

我長久地站在那兒

思索，擔憂，疑惑...

甚至夢想，夢想前人不敢奢求的夢境

隻有寂靜，始終如一

---沒有任何表征

唯一能聽到的低語，“雷諾爾！”

這是我在喃喃自語

“雷諾爾！”，這也是大地低沉的回聲

除此，寂靜，還是寂靜

 

注：此為《烏鴉》中最為精彩的一段

 

原文：

The Raven 

by Edgar Allen Poe

 

Deep into that darkness peering,

Long I stood there, wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals

Ever dared to dream before;

But the silence was unbroken,

And the stillness gave no token,

And the only word there spoken

Was the whispered word, "Lenore!"

This I whispered, and an echo

Murmured back the word, "Lenore!"

Merely this, and nothing more.