冬天

冬天

 

冬之钻石光茫洒满大地：

就在西方寒冷光环之中，

幻影般紫花朵轻绽谁识

依偎暮光朦胧。

 

幻影般花朵只片刻存在，

短暂的美丽；星星闪斐斐

寒冷刺心痛：渴望你盛开，

哦，圣光的花蕾。

 

从未可见于感官或情思，

美丽花朵远绽之地隐秘；

若在内心深处，无法得知，

知道 ，它已遁迹。

 

Winter

 

 

A diamond glow of winter o'er the world:

Amid the chilly halo nigh the west

Flickers a phantom violet bloom unfurled

Dim on the twilight's breast.

 

Only phantasmal blooms but for an hour,

A transient beauty; then the white stars shine

Chilling the heart: I long for thee to flower,

O bud of light divine.

 

But never visible to sense or thought

The flower of Beauty blooms afar withdrawn;

If in our being then we know it not,

Or, knowing, it is gone.

 

 

• by George William Russell (1867 - 1935), "Winter", appears in The Earth Breath and Other Poems, first published 1897