余光中·《夜开北门》英译

所谓夜，不过是边陲的城堡

夜读人是孤戍的堡主

一弯灯光流过来

便成美丽的护城河了

倚着雉堞的花边

堡主是寂寞而多思的

孤高的堡门有两扇

闭着的南门向现代

敞着的北门向古远

一过对岸

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The Open Gate of Night

Yu Guangzhong

The so-called night is but a frontier castle,

The night reader its lonely host.

The lamplight comes softly flowing

Into a spellbinding moat.

And, leaning on the lace of battlement,

The lonely host is full of thought.

For tall stand the two gates of the fort:

The south gate closed upon the present,

The north gate open unto the past.

   Once across the moat,

The meandering courier road

Soon loses itself in the mist.