Robert Frost - A Nature Note 汉译

Four of five whippoorwills

Have come down from their native ledge

To the open country edge

To give us a piece of their bills.

Two in June were a pair—

You’d say sufficiently loud,

But this was a family crowd,

A full-fledged family affair.

All out of time pell-mell!

I wasn’t in on the joke,

Unless it was coming to folk

To bid us a mock farewell.

I took note of when it occurred,

The twenty-third of September,

Their latest that I remember,

September the twenty-third.