久坐在这树的顶端，我双眼常闭。

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.

岿然不动，幻想

Inaction, no falsifying dream

不能活在我钩喙与钩爪间：

Between my hooked head and hooked feet:

或梦中预演完美的杀戮和享用食物。

Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

高高的树木是天然的便利！

The convenience of the high trees!

空气的浮力和日下光束

The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray

全对我有利；

Are of advantage to me;

大地仰卧让我侦察他的面孔。

And the earth's face upward for my inspection.

我以爪将粗粝的树皮锁住。

My feet are locked upon the rough bark.

那造物倾力

It took the whole of Creation

才锻造这利爪，我的每根羽毛：

To produce my foot, my each feather:

我现将造物捉在爪下

Now I hold Creation in my foot

或者高飞，慢慢地盘旋——

Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -

我主宰一切而随时乐意杀掉一切。

I kill where I please because it is all mine.

我的身体里没有任何诡辩：

There is no sophistry in my body:

撕碎头颅就是我的礼节——

My manners are tearing off heads -

死亡由我配给。

The allotment of death.

我飞行只经一条路线

For the one path of my flight is direct

生灵的骸骨留在沿途。

Through the bones of the living.

我的大权不需要凭据：

No arguments assert my right:

太阳就在我身后。

The sun is behind me.

事情从我开始就未曾改变。

Nothing has changed since I began.

我的眼睛也从来不容有变。

My eye has permitted no change.

我将要万物这么维持原样。

I am going to keep things like this.