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第51章 收获的月亮

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The Harvest Moon

[英]泰德·休斯

Ted Hughes

光辉灿烂的月亮,丰收的月亮,

在山中滚动,轻轻地跳跃,

一个庞大的气球,

起飞,落下

躺在天空的底部,恰似一枚金币。

收获的月亮到来了,

温柔地在天际发出低音管般的声音。

地球如敲响了低沉的鼓一般,整夜回应着。

人们不能睡去,

他们出门了,在榆树和橡树下跪着守夜,

一片虔诚的宁静。

收获的月亮来临了!

母牛和绵羊在月光的照耀下,

呆呆地仰望着她,她慢慢膨胀,

布满天际,火红而炙热,航行着,

越来越近,如世界末日的降临。

直到生长着僵直小麦的金色田野

叫嚷着:“我们成熟了,收获我们吧!”

江河从融化的山脉上流下。

The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,

Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,

A vast balloon,

Till it takes off, and sinks upward

To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.

The harvest moon has come,

Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.

And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.

So people can't sleep,

So they go out where elms and oak trees keep

A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush.

The harvest moon has come!

And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep

Stare up at her petrified, while she swells

Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing

Closer and closer like the end of the world.

Till the gold fields of stiff wheat

Cry 'We are ripe, reap us!'and the rivers

Sweat from the melting hills.