我曾走过许多大道

	I have walked along many roads,

也曾开辟许多小径

and opened paths through brush,

我曾数次杨帆远航

I have sailed over a hundred seas

也曾屡屡靠岸停泊

and tied up on a hundred shores.

我四处所见

	Everywhere I’ve gone I’ve seen

悲伤的商旅

excursions of sadness,

高傲而忧郁的

angry and melancholy

拖着长长黑影的醉汉

drunkards with black shadows,

文人注视着布毯

	and academics in offstage clothes

缄默无言，若有所思

who watch, say nothing, and think

全然不理睬

they know, because they do not drink wine

小酒馆的葡萄酒

in the ordinary bars.

丑恶之人行走四方

	Evil men who walk around

将糟践这片土地

polluting the earth. . .

我四处所见

	And everywhere I’ve been I’ve seen

人们舞蹈亦或嬉戏

men who dance and play,

只要一有时间，然后耕作在

when they can, and work

巴掌大的土地上

the few inches of ground they have.

从不，当他们抵达某处

	If they turn up somewhere,

从不过问身在何方

they never ask where they are.

行走之时，

When they take trips, they ride

就骑在老驴的背上，

on the backs of old mules.

他们从不知晓何谓匆忙

	They don’t know how to hurry,

即使在节日的日子里

not even on holidays.

倘若有酒，便去喝酒

They drink wine, if there is some,

倘若没酒，就喝凉水。

if not, cool water.

他们都是善人

	These men are the good ones,

生活，工作，行走，做梦

who love, work, walk and dream.

然后在那平常的一天

And on a day no different from the rest

便在大地之下长眠。

they lie down beneath the earth.