Robert Lowell - T. S. Eliot 汉译

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of Memorial Hall and Harvard’s war-dead. … And he:

“Don’t you loathe to be compared with your relatives?

I do. I’ve just found two of mine reviewed by Poe.

He wiped the floor with them … and I was delighted.”

Then on with warden’s pace across the Yard,

Taking of Pound, “It’s balls to say he isn’t

The way he is. … He’s better though. This year,

He no longer wants to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem.

Yes, he’s better. ‘You speak,’ he said, when he’d talked two hours.

By then I had absolutely nothing to say.”

Ah Tom, one muse, one music, had one the luck –

lost in the dark night of the brilliant talkers,

humor and boredom from the everlasting dross!

                                                                                           1969