一只癞蛤蟆的死

西铁

一只癞蛤蟆的死

作者：Richard Wilbur

译者：西铁

一只癞蛤蟆被动力割草机伤着了

被剪掉了一条腿，它在跛着跳

它到达了花园的边缘

找到了庇护它的小角

一个荫蔽的心形爪叶菊的叶下

那是一个低洼而灰暗的泽寮

它那本就不多的血流入土中

流入干枯不平的土表

并消失于岸边的小沟

消失于凝视着它的远瞧

它趴着

它幻想着重新回到的石头顶上的美好

它默默无声地等待着

然后死去，然后是深情而单调的凭吊

然后是雾气升腾的大海

冷凉的海岸和失落的两栖动物的天朝

时光被萎缩，淹没，最终消失

但它那大而古老的眼睛依然风骚

看看那被割过的草坪

憔悴的日光在方向盘上静悄悄

附：原作如下：

The Death Of A Toad

- Poem by Richard Wilbur

A toad the power mower caught,

Chewed and clipped of a leg, with a hobblinghop has got
To the garden verge,and sanctuaried him
Under the cineraria leaves,in the shade
Of the ashen andheartshaped leaves, in a dim,
Low, and a finalglade.

The rare originalheartsblood goes,

Spends in the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings,flows
In the gutters of thebanked and staring eyes. He lies
As still as if hewould return to stone,
And soundlesslyattending, dies
Toward some deepmonotone,

Toward misted andebullient seas

And cooling shores, toward lost Amphibia's emperies.
Day dwindles,drowning and at length is gone
In the wide andantique eyes, which still appear
To watch, across thecastrate lawn,
The haggard daylightsteer.