即便等到那创造人类

NEVER until the mankind making 

养育鸟兽和花朵

Bird beast and flower 

并贬低一切的玄黑

Fathering and all humbling darkness 

以缄默宣称最后的光在迸飞

Tells with silence the last light breaking 

还有那寂静的时刻

And the still hour 

正来自在轭下翻滚的海水

Is come of the sea tumbling in harness 

等到我必须再一次走进

And I must enter again the round 

一颗水珠的圆形圣庙

Zion of the water bead 

和一粒麦穗的犹太会堂

And the synagogue of the ear of corn 

我还是要祈祷一个声音的幻影

Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound 

或者把盐湿的种子撒到

Or sow my salt seed 

穿丧衣的狭谷去表示哀伤

In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn 

燃烧中的女孩那死亡之庄严

The majesty and burning of the child's death. 

我不会用不苟言笑的说教

I shall not murder 

来扼杀她的死去的全人类性

The mankind of her going with a grave truth 

也不会顺着生命的驿站

Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath 

用任何哀悼青春年少

With any further 

和童稚天真的挽歌去亵渎神圣。

Elegy of innocence and youth. 

伦敦的女儿同第一批死者深埋在一道，

Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, 

被裹在一长串友伴中间

Robed in the long friends, 

在永恒的尘粒、她母亲的暗色脉管里，

The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother. 

秘藏在奔流的泰晤士河道

Secret by the unmourning water 

不会表示哀悼的水之畔。

Of the riding Thames. 

第一次死亡之后，不会有另一次。

After the first death. there is no other. 

The hand that signed the paper 

THE HAND that signed the paper felled a city; 

Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, 

Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; 

These five kings did a king to death. 

The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder, 

The finger joints are cramped with chalk; 

A goose's quill has put an end to murder 

That put an end to talk. 

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, 

And famine grew, and locusts came; 

Great is the hand that holds dominion over 

Man by a scribbled name. 

The five kings count the dead but do not soften 

The crusted wound nor stroke the brow; 

A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; 

Hands have no tears to flow.