在大池塘

At Great Pond

太阳，正在升起，

the sun, rising,

他橙色的胸脯

scrapes his orange breast

掠过粗大的松树，

on the thick pines,

一些橙色的羽毛

and down tumble

飘进

a few orange feathers into

幽暗的水中。

the dark water.

远处的岸上

On the far shore

立着一只白鸟

a white bird is standing

仿佛一只白色的蜡烛——

like a white candle ---

或者一个男人，在远处，

or a man, in the distance,

陷入冥想——

in the clasp of some meditation ---

而所有环绕着我的百合

while all around me the lilies

正从夜晚

are breaking open again

黑色的洞穴中

from the black cave

再次开放。

of the night.

以后，我会思考

Later, I will consider

我所见的——

what I have seen ---

它可能象征什么——

what it could signify ---

我可能用什么赞誉之词

what words of adoration I might

解释它，而为了这样做，

make of it, and to do this

我将进屋坐在书桌前——

I will go indoors to my desk ---

我将坐在椅子中——

I will sit in my chair ---

我将回头去看

I will look back

这个遗失了的早晨

into the lost morning

此刻，我正在其中移动，

in which I am moving, now,

像一个游泳者，

like a swimmer,

多么平稳，

so smoothly,

多么安宁，

so peacefully,

我就像百合——

I am almost the lily ---

就像正消失在水面上的鸟

almost the bird vanishing over the water

穿着夜晚的衣袖。

on its sleeves of night.