Ten years without you. For so it happens.

十年没有你。就这么回事。

Days make their steady progress, a routine

日子慢慢过，宽厚不伤人，

That Is merciful and attracts nobody.

习以为常，并不吸引谁。

Already, like a disciplined scholar,

我早已像训练有素的学者，

I piece fragments together, past conjecture

把片断连起来，靠过去的猜测

Establishing true sequence of pain;

建立起痛苦之真实的序列；

For so it is proper to find value

从凄惨的技能找出价值

In a bleak skill, as in the thing restored:

是恰当的，如旧事重现：

The long-lost words of choice and valediction

那久已失落的精选词、告别词。