At Great Pond

在大池塘

the sun, rising,

太阳，正在升起，

scrapes his orange breast

他橙色的胸脯

on the thick pines,

掠过粗大的松树，

and down tumble

一些橙色的羽毛

a few orange feathers into

飘进

the dark water.

幽暗的水中。

On the far shore

远处的岸上

a white bird is standing

立着一只白鸟

like a white candle ---

仿佛一只白色的蜡烛——

or a man, in the distance,

或者一个男人，在远处，

in the clasp of some meditation ---

陷入冥想——

while all around me the lilies

而所有环绕着我的百合

are breaking open again

正从夜晚

from the black cave

黑色的洞穴中

of the night.

再次开放。

Later, I will consider

以后，我会思考

what I have seen ---

我所见的——

what it could signify ---

它可能象征什么——

what words of adoration I might

我可能用什么赞誉之词

make of it, and to do this

解释它，而为了这样做，

I will go indoors to my desk ---

我将进屋坐在书桌前——

I will sit in my chair ---

我将坐在椅子中——

I will look back

我将回头去看

into the lost morning

这个遗失了的早晨

in which I am moving, now,

此刻，我正在其中移动，

like a swimmer,

像一个游泳者，

so smoothly,

多么平稳，

so peacefully,

多么安宁，

I am almost the lily ---

我就像百合——

almost the bird vanishing over the water

就像正消失在水面上的鸟

on its sleeves of night.

穿着夜晚的衣袖。