是一种有魔力的东西。

is an enchanted thing

如同纺织娘

like the glaze on a

翅膀上的釉，

katydid-wing

被太阳细分出

subdivided by sun

无数网格。

till the nettings are legion.

如同吉塞金演奏斯卡拉蒂

Like Giesking playing Scarltti;

如同无翼鸟锥形的

like the apteryx-awl

喙，或者

as a beak, or the

几维鸟毛绒绒的

kiwi"s rain-shawl

羽毛蓑衣，精神

of haired feathers, the mind

虽然盲目却能感知它的方向，

feeling its way as though blind,

眼睛盯着路面，一路走来。

walks along with its eyes on the ground.

它有记忆的耳朵，

It has memory"s ear

不需要刻意去听

that can hear without

就可以听见。

having to hear.

如同陀螺的降落，

Like the gyroscope"s fall,

一种真正的模棱两可，

truly equivocal

因为压倒一切的确定性保持着它的平衡。

because trued by regnant certainty,

它是一种功率强大的魅力。

it is a power of strong enchantment. It

如同鸽子的

is like the dove-

脖颈，在太阳下

neck animated by

生机勃勃；它是记忆的眼睛，

sun; it is memory"s eye;

它是诚实的前后矛盾。

it"s conscientious inconsistency.

它从它的眼中，撕去了面纱； 

It tears off the veil; tears

撕去了诱惑，

the temptation, the

和心灵的

mist the heart wears,

薄雾——如果心灵

from its eyes - if the heart

有一张脸的话；它剖析

has a face; it takes apart

沮丧。它是鸽子脖颈上

dejection. It"s fire in the dove-neck"s

彩虹色的火焰；是斯卡拉蒂似的

iridescence; in the inconsistencies

前后矛盾。

of Scarlatti.

清晰提交它的混乱

Unconfusion submits

作为证据；它

its confusion to proof; it"s

不是希律王不可被更改的誓言。

not a Herod"s oath that cannot change.