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2009-06-12来源:和谐英语
The Shadow on the Stone

 
I went by the Druid stone

That broods in the garden white and lone,

And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows

That at some moments fall thereon

From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,

And they shaped in my imagining

To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders

Threw there when she was gardening.

 

I thought her behind my back,

Yea, her I long had learned to lack,

And I said: "I am sure you are standing behind me,

Though how do you get into this old track?"

And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf

As a sad response; and to keep down my grief

I would not turn my head to discover

That there was nothing in my belief.

 

Yet I wanted to look and see

That nobody stood at the back of me;

But I thought once more: "Nay, I'll not unvision

A shape which, somehow, there may be."

So I went on softly from the glade,

And left her behind me throwing her shade,

As she were indeed an apparition-

My head unturned lest my dream should fade.

 

踪影

 

我漫步经过一块石碑

它晶莹而又孤零零立在花园中,

我停步注视着

碑上移动的树影,

树枝在有节奏的摆动。

在我的想象里,

影子化作我熟悉的头和双肩,

是她在园中操作的身影。

 

我想准是她站在我的背后,

我久已失去她的音容。

我说:“我知道你在我背后,

可你怎么到这常来的旧径?”

寂然无语,只有凄凉的落叶声。

我抑制住我的悲哀,

我不愿回过头去,

怕看不到一个人影。

 

可是我又想看个分明,

看背后有否人踪。

但我又想:“可不能使这一形象消失,

她就在我身后也很可能。”

我悄悄离开花园,

留下她的身影在我背后,

她好象真是一个幻影,

我头也不回,怕我的梦消失无踪。




托马斯·哈代(Thomas Hardy,1840-1928)生于英格兰多尔切斯特的一个小村子里。父亲是位建筑师。早年,托马斯·哈代从事建筑事务,但是他最爱写诗,他由于写诗难得有出版机会,随转向写小说,后以写小说而成名。1896年,他发表了他的最后一部小说《无名的裘德》(Jude the Obscure),以后即转向写诗,整个晚年他都用来写诗。

早年,他浪迹于森林田野和草原上,听到不少民谣和民间故事,多为荒凉的路口和坟园故事,逐渐形成一种悲观失望的人生观,认为人就是孤立无援与上帝奋斗。但在他的作品中,我们看到哈代对受苦的人民充满同情。