世界变迁中的鸟类学

看见一首Robert Penn Warren的诗，喜欢原文但不喜欢直译，我来试试一个意译的版本。

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意译的版本：

《世界变迁中的鸟类学》

 

那只不过是一只不知名的鸟儿在夜色中啼鸣

当我从泉边汲水归来，穿过屋后布满岩石的牧地

我悄然伫立（心如止水）水桶中的倒影比夜空更为静谧

 

多年过后，沧海桑田容颜褪变，多少人已经死去

我站在辽远的土地上，夜色依旧，我终于知道我怀念着

那鸟鸣中（天籁般的）寂静胜过那些注定消逝的东西

 

诗歌原文：

Ornithology in a World of Flux.

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.