Emily Dickinson's 'If You Were Coming in the Fall' 中文版

Emily Dickinson's "If You Were Coming in the Fall" 中文版

《如果你秋天來》
作者：艾米莉·狄金森 （美國）
翻譯：忒綠 （Tweeting Green)


If you were coming in the Fall,
如果你秋天來，

I'd brush the Summer by
我就輕輕把夏天掃過

With half a smile, and half a spurn,
用一半微笑，和一半輕蔑，

As Housewives do, a Fly.
如同家庭主婦們趕走，一隻蒼蠅。



If I could see you in a year,
如果能在一年內見你，

I'd wind the months in balls---
我將把月份纏成圓球—-

And put them each in separate Drawers,
把它們放在不同的抽屜，

For fear the numbers fuse---
唯恐這些數字融在一起—-



If only Centuries, delayed,
如果隻是幾個世紀，等待，

I'd count them on my Hand,
我會在我的手上將它們數記，

Subtracting, til my fingers dropped
一點一點地減除，直到我的手指脫落
Into Van Dieman's Land,
全部掉進範·迪鄂曼的土地，

If certain, when this life was out---
如果能夠知道，生命的完結—-

That yours and mine, should be
你的和我的，該完結的時間

I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind,
我會把這一生拋到遠方，就如扔掉一塊果皮，

And take Eternity---
然後擁抱我們生命之後的永恒—-



But, now, uncertain of the length
可是，現在，這個長度

Of this, that is between,
卻是不能確定，模棱兩可，

It goads me, like the Goblin
Bee---
困擾著我，像一隻嗡嗡作響著了魔的蜜蜂—-

That will not state--- its sting.
不告訴—- 何時螫咬我。