房中的魅影

The houses are haunted

是洁白的睡衣。

By white night-gowns.

没一件绿的，

None are green,

没有绿边的紫色，

Or purple with green rings,

没有黄边的绿色，

Or green with yellow rings,

没有蓝边的黄色。

Or yellow with blue rings.

没一件是怪的，

None of them are strange,

不见花边的袜子，

With socks of lace

珠饰的腰带。

And beaded ceintures.

人们才不会

People are not going

梦见狒狒和玉黍螺。

To dream of baboons and periwinkles.

只有个老水手，他睡某处，

Only, here and there, an old sailor,

穿着皮靴醉了酒，在梦中

Drunk and asleep in his boots,

他捉老虎

Catches tigers

——那红色的天气。

In red weather.