Emily Dickinson - The Mushroom 汉译

The mushroom is the elf of plants,
At evening it is not;
At morning in a truffled hut
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As if it tarried always;
And yet its whole career
Is shorter than a snake’s delay,
And fleeter than a tare.

‘T is vegetation’s juggler,
The germ of alibi;
Doth like a bubble antedate,
And like a bubble hie.

I feel as if the grass were pleased
To have it intermit;
The surreptitious scion
Of summer’s circumspect.

Had nature any outcast face,
Could she a son contemn,
Had nature an Iscariot,
That mushroom, —it is him.

 

蕈 

蕈是植物之中的精灵。

到黄昏它已不见；

晨间它撑着麦菌的小屋，

停步于一个地点，

 

恍若它经常如此淹留；

但是它生命的全部

却短于一条蛇的逡巡，

比莠豆还要急促。

 

它是植物中间的魔术家，

置身局外的稚子；

像一闪泡沫般抢先来临，

又如泡沫般疾逝。

 

我感觉丛草像欣然乐于

让它作片时的憩足；

盛夏这一位私生的小孩

会留心前瞻后顾。

 

若自然也有张被弃的脸，

若它也贱视小娃，

若自然也有狡黠的犹大，

那野蕈，那就是它