A poem hke a missal found

一首诗如同泥泞中发现的

In the mud, a missal for that young man,

弥撒书，为年轻人而备的弥撒书，

That scholar hungriest for that book,

学者极度渴望那本书，

The very book, or, less, a page

渴望一整本，或其中一页，

Or, at the least, a phrase, that phrase,

或至少一句格言，那句格言，

A hawk of life, that latined phrase:

一只生命之鹰，那句拉丁文的格言：

To know; a missal for brooding-sight.

去领悟；为静观而写的弥撒书。

To meet that hawk's eye and to flinch

去直视鹰的眼睛，去畏惧，

Not at the eye but at the joy of it.

不是畏惧眼睛而是畏惧它的欢愉。

I play. But this is what I think.

我弹奏。但这是我所思考的。