Compelled by calamity's magnet

灾难的磁石迫使他们

They loiter and stare as if the house

游荡，凝视，好像那烧毁的房子

Burnt-out were theirs, or as if they thought

是他们的，仿佛他们以为

Some scandal might any minute ooze

每时每刻都有丑闻从烟熏的壁橱

From a smoke-choked closet into light;

渗到光天化日之下；

No deaths, no prodigious injuries

任何死亡或巨大的伤害

Glut these hunters after an old meat,

都不能满足这些猎手，他们还在

Blood-spoor of the austere tragedies.

追逐那块肉，严酷悲剧的血迹。

Mother Medea in a green smock

母亲美狄亚穿着绿色女衬衣

Moves humbly as any housewife through

像所有家庭妇女，谦卑地

Her ruined apartments, taking stock

行走于她被毁的房间，估量

Of charred shoes, the sodden upholstery:

烧焦的鞋子，湿透的家具衬垫：

Cheated of the pyre and the rack,

观众被骗夺了火葬柴堆与肢刑架，

The crowd sucks her last tear and turns away.

吸干她最后一滴泪，扭头就走。