October Dawn - Ted Hughes 汉译

October is marigold, and yet

A glass half full of wine left out

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To the dark heaven all night, by dawn

Has dreamed a premonition

Of ice across its eye as if

The ice-age had begun its heave.

The lawn overtrodden and strewn

From the night before, and the whistling green

Shrubbery are doomed. Ice

Has got its spearhead into place.

First a skin, delicately here

Restraining a ripple from the air,

Soom plate and rivet on pond and brook;

Then tons of chain and massive lock

To hold rivers. Then, sound by sight

Will Mammoth and Sabre-toothed celebrate

Reunion while a fist of cold

Squeezes the fire at the core of the world,

Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart,

And now it is about to start.