【抖森读诗】The Mower by Philip Larkin
《割草机》,英国现代诗人菲利普·拉金的作品,他的灵感来自1979年夏天他遇到的一件奇怪的事,这件事促使了他写下了这首关于人生短暂和怜悯的诗。
The Mower
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
《割草机》
割草机抛锚了,两次;跪着,我发现
是一只刺猬卷进刀片造成了堵塞,
被卡死了。它始终在高高的草丛。
我之前见过它,甚至还曾经,喂过它。
现在我弄毁了它不想惹眼的世界
无以修补。埋葬也没有帮助:
翌日清晨我起来,而它已不能了。
一次死亡后的第一天,新的空缺
总还是这个样;我们应关乎
于彼此,并且应当仁慈
若我们还有时间。
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