声音简介
by Philip Larkin
At last you yielded up the album, which
Once open, sent me distracted.
All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!
Too much confectionery, too rich:
I choke on such nutritious images.
My swivel eye hungers from pose to pose --
In pigtails, clutching a reluctant cat;
Or furred yourself, a sweet girl-graduate;
Or lifting a heavy-headed rose
Beneath a trellis, or in a trilby-hat
(Faintly disturbing, that, in several ways) --
From every side you strike at my control,
Not least through those these disquieting chaps who loll
At ease about your earlier days:
Not quite your class, I'd say, dear, on the whole.
But o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! that records
Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,
And will not censor blemishes
Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards,
But shows a cat as disinclined, and shades
A chin as doubled when it is, what grace
Your candour thus confers upon her face!
How overwhelmingly persuades
That this is a real girl in a real place,
In every sense empirically true!
Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate,
These misty parks and motors, lacerate
Simply by being you; you
Contract my heart by looking out of date.
Yes, true; but in the end, surely, we cry
Not only at exclusion, but because
It leaves us free to cry.
We know what was
Won't call on us to justify
Our grief, however hard we yowl across
The gap from eye to page.
So I am left
To mourn (without a chance of consequence)
You, balanced on a bike against a fence;
To wonder if you'd spot the theft
Of this one of you bathing; to
condenseIn short, a past that no one now can share,
No matter whose your future; calm and dry,
It holds you like a heaven, and you lie
Unvariably lovely there,
Smaller and clearer as the years go by.
写在一位年轻女士照相簿上的诗行
一翻开你终于交出来的照相簿，
我就给弄糊涂了。厚厚的黑纸上，
是你各种年华粗糙和光洁的像！
太多的糖果蜜钱，但太丰富这样有营养的形象咽得我喉咙呛。
我饥饿的服从这神态转到那姿势
梳小辫子的，抓着不情愿的猫的；
穿毛皮衣裳的，可爱的姑娘毕业了；
要不，在棚架下举起一支
花朵儿硕大的玫瑰．再就是戴着
软毡帽(在几方面这使人有点难平静)
你从各个角度对我的自我控制冲击；
而这些小伙子在你早先的日子里
悠悠闲混，也颇叫我心神不宁。
我说亲爱的，他们中大多够不上你。
但是噢，相片，没有任何的艺术在，信任且失望！记录所有烦闷的日子，和有缺点的微笑，一些美中不足的瑕疵它没法子掩饰，
却显出那只猫儿心不甘、情不愿，还分明地录下事实如此的双下巴，
你的率直就这样给那脸大添优雅！
这无可辩驳地说明了一点：
是在真的地方把这位真姑娘摄下，在每种意义上，经验证明这是真的！
要不，这只是过去？那些花、那扇门、那些雾萦蒙的停车场和汽车、只因曝光过度变得很不像样了
你过时的形象紧紧地捏着我的心。
对呀，但说到底，我们决不是仅仅
为给排除在外而悲伤，是因为我们
由此可自由地哭泣。我们知道单凭
过去并不能使我们的伤心
显得有理，也不管我们隔着眼睛和相片间的鸿沟狂喊。所以我只落得不可能有结果地为你哀伤
你倚着栅栏，平衡在一辆自行车上，
只落得奇怪，你可会发现这
偷摄你游泳时的镜头。总之，把以往浓缩，而这以往如今没人能分享，
不管你的未来属于谁；这相册对你
就好像天堂一样，既没风又没雨，
可爱的你在这里将永不走样，
将随岁月的流逝变得更小、更明晰。
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