The interests of a black man in a cellar

地窖中黑人的利益在世界

Mark tardy judgment on the world's closed door.

关着的门上看到迟延的判决。

Gnats toss in the shadow of a bottle,

蚊蚋在瓶子的阴影里折腾，

And a roach spans a crevice in the floor.

蟑螂测量着地板上的缝隙。

Æsop, driven to pondering, found

伊索，被迫思考，他发现了

Heaven with the tortoise and the hare;

一个有龟，有兔的天堂；

Fox brush and sow ear top his grave

狐尾和猪耳长在他的坟头

And mingling incantations on the air.

把神秘的咒文混入风中。

The black man, forlorn in the cellar,

那黑人，被抛弃在地窖里，

Wanders in some mid-kingdom, dark, that lies,

在一个黑暗的中央王国漫游，

Between his tambourine, stuck on the wall,

一边是他挂在墙上的手鼓，

And, in Africa, a carcass quick with flies.

一边是在非洲很快长蛆的尸首。