《有时，当光线》by 穆勒

有时，当光线   林木译

 

有时，当光线从特殊的角度射来

把你带回童年

 

你路过一座摇摇欲坠的大宅

它完全藏在老柳树后面

 

或是一座空修道院，守门的是铁杉

和并肩而立的巨杉，

 

你会再次感到在那堵墙后面，

柳树未剪的发丝下

 

有什么秘密正在发生，

既神奇又危险

 

假如你爬进去窥见了，

你会死去，或永远幸福。

 

Sometimes, When the Light

by Lisel Mueller

 

Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles

and pulls you back into childhood

 

and you are passing a crumbling mansion

completely hidden behind old willows

 

or an empty convent guarded by hemlocks

and giant firs standing hip to hip,

 

you know again that behind that wall,

under the uncut hair of the willows

 

something secret is going on,

so marvelous and dangerous

 

that if you crawled through and saw,

you would die, or be happy forever.