試譯：〈流變世界中的鳥類學〉 勞勃·佩恩·華倫【Ornithology in a World of Flux－Robert Penn Warren】

流變世界中的鳥類學　　勞勃·佩恩·華倫（試譯：淺白）
 
那只是黃昏時的一聲鳥叫，來處未明，
當我自泉邊打水回來，穿過那峋嶙的後頭的牧草地；
而我站得這樣靜，頭上的天都沒比我水桶內的天更靜。
 
多年過去，所有的地方與人面褪逝，有些人已死去，
而我站在一方遠地，當黃昏依然謐靜，乃終於明白
我當是更想念該剎鳥叫時的靜，相對于那些
每在日後失效的種種。
 
4/1/2024初稿
12/1/2024二稿
 

Ornithology in a World of Flux
By Robert Penn Warren  (from his 1960 collection You, Emperors, and Others)
 
It was only a bird call at evening, unidentified,
As I came from the spring with water, across the rocky back-pasture;
But so still I stood sky above was not stiller than sky in pail-water.
 
Years pass, all places and faces fade, some people have died,
And I stand in a far land, the evening still, and am at last sure
That I miss more that stillness at bird-call than some things that were to fail later.

圖片源自網絡。