Walt Whitman - Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City 汉译

Once I pass’d through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions;

Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually met there, who detain’d me for love of me;

Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else has long been forgotten by me;

I remember, I say, only that woman who passionately clung to me;

Again we wander—we love—we separate again;

Again she holds me by the hand—I must not go!

I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.

一次，我经过一个人烟稠密的城市

一次，我经过一个人烟稠密的城市，我把它的外表、建筑、习俗、传统，铭刻在我脑子里，以便将来使用，

然而现在在那整个城市里我记得的只是一个偶尔遇到的女人，她因为爱我而把我留下了，

我们日日夜夜在一起——别的一切我都早已忘记，

我记得我只是说那女人热烈地紧紧缠住我不放，

我们一再到处漫游，我们热恋，我们又分手，

她又一次握住了我的手，不许我走，