二度降临 - 叶芝(英音)

The Second Coming

by William Butler Yeats

二度降临

请跟英语兔我一起读:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

回旋复回旋，於愈益扩大的漩涡，

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

猎鹰听不见放鹰的人；

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

一切都崩落，再无核心可以掌握；

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

只剩下混乱，漫溢世间，

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

纯真的庆典已经沉没了；

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

最好你没有信念，最坏

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

你还有充满激情的狂烈。

Are full of passionate intensity.

你还有充满激情的狂烈。

Surely some revelation is at hand;

想必有些启示到来；

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

想必有二度降临到来。

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

二度降临！多难说出的字眼，

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

当精神宙宇的庞然大形

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

攫住我的视线，在沙漠的尘埃之中

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

一形影，有狮的身躯人的头，

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

一凝视，空洞而无情如阳光，

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

正移动着缓慢的躯壳，周边是

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

愤怒的沙漠鸟群，卷动的阴影。

The darkness drops again; but now I know

二十个世纪，顽石般的长眠

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

二十个世纪，顽石般的长眠

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

已经让摆动的摇篮荡入梦魇，

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

那是什麽畜生？ 它的时间终於到来，

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

淫淫靡靡的走入 伯利恒，等待出生。