通过绿色茎管催动花朵的力

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

催动我的绿色年华，毁灭树根的力

Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees

也是害我的刽子手。

Is my destroyer.

我缄默不语，无法告诉佝偻的玫瑰

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

正是这同样的冬天之热病毁损了我的青春。

My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

催动泉水挤过岩缝的力催动

The force that drives the water through the rocks

我鲜红的血液；那使絮叨的小溪干涸的力

Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams

使我的血液凝固。

Turns mine to wax.

我缄默不语，无法对我的脉管张口，

And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins

同一双嘴唇怎样吸干了山泉。

How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.

搅动着一泓池水的那一只手

The hand that whirls the water in the pool

搅动起流沙；牵引狂风的手

Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind

扯动我的尸布船帆。

Hauls my shroud sail.

我缄默不语，无法告诉走上绞架的人

And I am dumb to tell the hanging man

我的肉体制成了绞刑吏的滑石粉。

How of my clay is made the hangman's lime.

时间的嘴唇像水蛭吮吸着泉源，

The lips of time leech to the fountain head；

爱情滴落又凝聚，但流下血液

Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood

将抚慰她的创痛。

Shall calm her sores.

我缄默不语，无法告诉变幻不定的风儿

And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind

时间怎样环绕着繁星凿出一个天穹。

How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.

我缄默不语，无法告诉情人的墓穴，

And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb

我的床单上也蠕动着一样的蛆虫。

How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm