直到创造人类

NEVER until the mankind making 

主宰禽兽花木

Bird beast and flower 

君临万物的黑暗

Fathering and all humbling darkness 

以沉寂宣告最后一缕光明闪现

Tells with silence the last light breaking 

而那静止的时辰

And the still hour 

来自轭下躁动不安的大海

Is come of the sea tumbling in harness 

而我必须再一次进入

And I must enter again the round 

水珠圆润的天庭

Zion of the water bead 

和玉蜀黍的犹大教堂

And the synagogue of the ear of corn 

我才能为一个声音的影子祈祷

Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound 

或在服丧的幽谷之中

Or sow my salt seed 

播撒我苦涩的种子去哀悼

In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn 

这个孩子高贵而壮烈的死亡。

The majesty and burning of the child's death. 

我不会去谋杀

I shall not murder 

她那与严峻的真理同行的人性

The mankind of her going with a grave truth 

也不会再以天真

Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath 

和青春的挽歌

With any further 

去亵渎生命的港口。

Elegy of innocence and youth. 

伦敦的女儿与第一批死者同穴深葬，

Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, 

众多的至亲好友将她裹没，

Robed in the long friends, 

永恒的尘粒，母亲深色的血管

The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother. 

默默地傍依着冷漠地

Secret by the unmourning water 

涌流不息的泰晤士河。

Of the riding Thames. 

第一次生命丧失以后，再没有另一次死亡。

After the first death. there is no other. 

The hand that signed the paper 

THE HAND that signed the paper felled a city; 

Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, 

Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; 

These five kings did a king to death. 

The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder, 

The finger joints are cramped with chalk; 

A goose's quill has put an end to murder 

That put an end to talk. 

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, 

And famine grew, and locusts came; 

Great is the hand that holds dominion over 

Man by a scribbled name. 

The five kings count the dead but do not soften 

The crusted wound nor stroke the brow; 

A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; 

Hands have no tears to flow.