《西罗普郡一少年》：25: 去年现在，十二个月前 Ohjuice2022-08-25 02:42:07

《西罗普郡一少年》

XXV

第二十五首

去年现在，十二个月前

This Time of Year a Twelvemonth Past

 

英国   A. E. 豪斯曼原著

Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 1936)

徐家祯翻译

 

This time of year a twelvemonth past,

      When Fred and I would meet,

We needs must jangle, till at last

       We fought and I was beat.

 

So then the summer fields about,

      Till rainy days began,

Rose Harland on her Sundays out

      Walked with the better man.

 

The better man she walks with still,

      Though now 'tis not with Fred:

A lad that lives and has his will

      Is worth a dozen dead.

 

Fred keeps the house all kinds of weather,

      And clay's the house he keeps;

When Rose and I walk out together

      Stock-still lies Fred and sleeps.