缺席-伊丽莎白·詹宁斯-小米&徐安 中英联读-2018030

缺席 我去了我们最后一次见面的地方。 什么也没改变，花园照管得很好， 喷泉喷射着它们惯常的稳定的水流； 没有迹象表明某事已经结束， 也没有什么教我学会忘记。 一些愚笨的鸟儿从树里面窜出来， 唱着我无法分享的欢喜， 在我的思想里玩弄诡计。当然这些 欢乐里不可能有要忍受的痛苦， 也没有任何不和谐颤动这平静的风。 只因这个地方还和从前一样， 使得你的缺席像是一股残忍的力量， 因为在这所有的温柔之下 一场地震的战栗来临：喷泉，鸟儿和青草 因我想起你的名字而颤抖。 作者 / [英国] 伊丽莎白·詹宁斯 翻译 / 舒丹丹 选自 /《现代诗110首·蓝卷》三联书店 Absence I visited the place where we last met. Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended, The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet; There was no sign that anything had ended And nothing to instruct me to forget. The thoughtless birds that shook out of the trees, Singing an ecstasy I could not share, Played cunning in my thoughts. Surely in these Pleasures there could not be a pain to bear Or any discord shake the level breeze. It was because the place was just the same That made your absence seem a savage force, For under all the gentleness there came An earthquake tremor: Fountain, birds and grass Were shaken by my thinking of your name. Elizabeth Jennings