"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

翻译人员: Youyou Gu 校对人员: Yunjung Nam

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

《二度圣临》 作者：威廉 · 巴特勒 · 叶芝

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

盘旋复又继续

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

猎鹰不闻人语；

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

万物分崩离析； 中心难以维系；

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

世间一片混乱，

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

血色暗潮，漫溢四方，

淹没善良纯真；

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

善者无所依靠，

恶人蠢蠢欲动。

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

神谕昭然若揭；

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

此乃二度圣临。

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

此乃二度圣临！ 此言尚未成真

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

便见灵兽蒙迪

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

扰我视线：行于沙漠

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

狮身人面，

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

目光如炬，

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

腿脚缓慢前行，

愤怒鸟影环绕。

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

夜幕再度降临； 此时我已知晓

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

两千年的长眠

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

已被噩梦惊扰，

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

何种野兽， 终将到来，

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

再度降临伯利恒？