那些长长的参差的队列

Those long uneven lines

耐心地候立着，

Standing as patiently

好像延伸到

As if they were stretched outside

椭圆板球场或别墅公园外面，

The Oval or Villa Park

帽子上的花边，太阳

The crowns of hats the sun

在长着八字胡的古板的脸上

On moustached archaic faces

咧嘴而笑，一切仿佛是

Grinning as if it were all

八月公共节假日的一场玩乐；

An August bank Holiday lark;

还有歇业的店铺，遮阳篷上

And the shut shops the bleached

褪色的公认的名字，

Established names on the sunblinds

法寻与沙弗林硬币，

The farthings and sovereigns

穿深色衣服的孩子们在玩耍，

Adn dark-clothed children at play

戏称国王和王后之名，

Called after kings and queens

马口铁罐头广告

The tin advertisements

为可可粉和烟草而设，酒吧

For cocoa and twist and the pubs

整日敞开着；

Wide open all day;

乡下也无忧无虑：

And the countryside ont caring:

地名牌全都雾蒙蒙，笼罩在

The place-names all hazed over

开花的草地上，隐蔽着

With flowering grasses and fields

分界线的田野

Shadowing Domesday lines

沉浸在麦子永无止尽的缄默；

Under wheat's restless silence;

装扮各异的仆人

The differently-dressed servants

大庄园里拥有一间小房子，

With tiny rooms in huge houses

轿式老爷车后面有灰尘；

The dust behind limousines;

再不会有这样的纯真，

Never such innocence

从前或以后都不会再有，

Never before or since

它一言不发改变了自己

As changed itself to past

变成过去——男人们

Without a word--the men

抛下整饬的花园，

Leaving the gardens tidy

成千上万的婚姻

The thousands of marriages

多持续一会儿：

Lasting a littlewhile longer:

再不会有这样的纯真。

Never such innocence again.