英文诗歌

The Shadow on the Stone

　 by Thomas Hardy

I went by the Druid stone

That broods in the garden white and lone,

And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows

That at some moments fall thereon

From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,

And they shaped in my imagining

To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders

Threw there when she was gardening.

I thought her behind my back,

Yea, her I long had learned to lack,

And I said: "I am sure you are standing behind me,

Though how do you get into this old track?"

And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf

As a sad response; and to keep down my grief

I would not turn my head to discover

That there was nothing in my belief.

Yet I wanted to look and see

That nobody stood at the back of me;

But I thought once more: "Nay, I'll not unvision

A shape which, somehow, there may be."

So I went on softly from the glade,

And left her behind me throwing her shade,

As she were indeed an apparition-

My head unturned lest my dream should fade.

中文译文

踪影

--托马斯·哈代
　

我漫步经过一块石碑

它晶莹而又孤零零立在花园中，

我停步注视着

碑上移动的树影，

树枝在有节奏的摆动。

在我的想象里，

影子化作我熟悉的头和双肩，

是她在园中操作的身影。

我想准是她站在我的背后，

我久已失去她的音容。

我说：“我知道你在我背后，

可你怎么到这常来的旧径？”

寂然无语，只有凄凉的落叶声。

我抑制住我的悲哀，

我不愿回过头去，

怕看不到一个人影。

可是我又想看个分明，

看背后有否人踪。

但我又想：“可不能使这一形象消失，

她就在我身后也很可能。”

我悄悄离开花园，

留下她的身影在我背后，

她好象真是一个幻影，

我头也不回，怕我的梦消失无踪。