直到创造的人类

NEVER until the mankind making 

培育鸟兽花木

Bird beast and flower 

君临万物的黑暗

Fathering and all humbling darkness 

默然宣告最后一缕光的消逝

Tells with silence the last light breaking 

寂静的时辰

And the still hour 

来自轭下汹涌澎湃的大海

Is come of the sea tumbling in harness 

我又须再一次走进

And I must enter again the round 

水珠圆润的天庭

Zion of the water bead 

及玉米穗的犹太教堂

And the synagogue of the ear of corn 

我才会默许祈祷声音的影子

Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound 

或在最小的峡谷

Or sow my salt seed 

播撒我苦涩的种子服丧去哀悼

In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn 

这个孩子高贵而壮烈的死亡。

The majesty and burning of the child's death. 

我不会

I shall not murder 

以严峻的真理谋杀她离别的人类

The mankind of her going with a grave truth 

也不会再次让天真和青春的挽歌

Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath 

亵渎

With any further 

生命呼吸的驿站。

Elegy of innocence and youth. 

伦敦的女儿葬在深埋先辈的地方，

Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, 

众多的亲友替她裹身，

Robed in the long friends, 

年久的谷物，母亲忧郁的心绪，

The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother. 

泰晤士河冷漠的河水

Secret by the unmourning water 

悄悄的奔流。

Of the riding Thames. 

第一次死亡之后，从此死亡不再。

After the first death. there is no other. 

The hand that signed the paper 

THE HAND that signed the paper felled a city; 

Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, 

Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; 

These five kings did a king to death. 

The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder, 

The finger joints are cramped with chalk; 

A goose's quill has put an end to murder 

That put an end to talk. 

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, 

And famine grew, and locusts came; 

Great is the hand that holds dominion over 

Man by a scribbled name. 

The five kings count the dead but do not soften 

The crusted wound nor stroke the brow; 

A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; 

Hands have no tears to flow.