John Webster - A Dirge 汉译

  Since o’er shady groves they hover

  And with leaves and flowers do cover

The friendless bodies of unburied men.

  Call unto his funeral dole

  The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole,

To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm

And (when gay tombs are robb’d) sustain no harm;

But keep the wolf far thence, that’s foe to men,

For with his nails he’ll dig them up again.

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约翰·韦伯斯特

把那些知更鸟和鹪鹩唤来，

  它们在茂密的树丛上飞翔，

  在无亲无友的未埋遗体上

撒下了花和叶，把他们掩盖。

  叫那些田鼠和鼹鼠和蚂蚁

  来参加他这个悲惨的葬礼，

来给垒上土，让他别受侵扰

别受凉（因为好坟墓招偷盗）；

但与人为敌的豺狼得赶开，

它爪子会把人重新扒出来。