倒数韵

倒数韵

                

山毛榉银皮和蜡妆

黄桦的树皮和色黄

柳树枝长。

 

纹枫中的绿色条新，

苹果叶子的颜色纯，

杨树皮匀。

 

杨树苍白宛如月明，

轭和仓梁橡木制成，

千斤榆生。

 

山毛榉银皮和腔藏

接骨木的茎，高而黄

柳树枝长。

 

Counting-Out Rhyme

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow.