The Magpie
- Over the heath has the magpie flown
- Over the hazel cover,
- Ah why will a magpie live alone
- He waits for the lady and lover.
- “What may be the sadness that ends your smile?”
- She said, “My peace is o’er, love”
- “I am going afar for so brief a while”
- She said, “We must no more, love.”
- They stood for the swish of the mower’s blade
- As they went round the meadow,
- And under him as he sang and swayed
- Moved his meridian shadow.
- “The ruddy young reaper he sings be glad
- In the sphere of the earth is no flaw, love.”
- She said, “He is singing all lives grown sad
- He knows no other law, love.”
- The grass and the sedge and the little reed wren
- A sociable world were talking
- And the water was saying enough for ten
- As they by the stream went walking.
- “The grass and the sedge and the little reed wren
- Are saying it low and high, love,
- There’s a feast in the forest and mirth in the fen.”
- She said, “Ah how they sigh, love.”
- He flew by the meadow and flew by the brake
- She saw him over the flag fly
- Down by the marsh, with his tail a-shake
- Alone with himself the magpie.
- “What may be the sadness that ends your smile?”
- She said, “My peace is o’er, love.”
- Ah who with folly from love beguiled
- She said, “We must no more, love.”
喜鹊
- 在荒野上方喜鹊飞去，
- 在榛林冠盖的上方，
- 啊，喜鹊为何要独居？
- 它等待贵妇和情郎。
- “你为何伤心欢颜不展？”
- 她说：“我已无宁日，爱人。”
- “我远行将是那么短暂。”
- 她说：“我们别再会，爱人。”
- 他们在草地上四处漫步，
- 驻足听割草人挥镰声；
- 他边唱歌儿边起伏，正午
- 影子在身子下移动。
- “红脸膛年轻割草人他唱，
- 在世上作乐不是错，爱人。”
- 她说：“他在唱众生皆悲怆，
- 他不懂别的法则，爱人。”
- 禾草、莎草和小小芦鹪鹩，
- 一个社交圈在交谈；
- 溪水说着，来十只就够了，
- 他们正走过溪流边。
- “禾草、莎草和小小芦鹪鹩
- 低一声高一声正说话，爱人，
- 林中有欢宴，泽中有嬉闹。”
- 她说：“它们叹息啊，爱人。”
- 它飞过草地，飞过树丛，
- 她见它飞越芦苇，
- 经沼泽往下，尾巴晃动，
- 那喜鹊形单影只。
- “你为何伤心欢颜不展？”
- 她说：“我已无宁日，爱人。”
- 啊，出于爱干傻事欺骗，
- 她说：“我们别再会，爱人。”
傅浩 译
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作乐 ：原句为"In the sphere of the earth is no flaw, love"，值得结合原文思考是否合适。
flag: flag iris.
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