关于灾难，他们不会错，

About suffering they were never wrong, 

古典大师们：绝佳地理解

The Old Masters: how well, they understood 

它在人心的位置，它产生的时辰

Its human position; how it takes place 

某人正在吃饭或开启一扇窗或阴沉地走过；

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; 

理解吧，当老者虔敬地，热情地恭候

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting 

奇迹不可思议的出现，会有一些

For the miraculous birth, there always must be 

孩子勉强地希望这事发生，而且溜冰

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating 

在森林边缘的池塘上：

On a pond at the edge of the wood: 

他们从未忘记

They never forgot 

可怖的殉道各走其路

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course 

无论一个角落，还是邋遢的污地

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot 

狗们继续其狗狗生涯，施刑者的马

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse 

倚着一棵树蹭自己无辜的屁股。

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. 

在勃吕盖尔《伊卡洛斯》中：每样事物转首

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away 

在大灾大难里悠闲自得；耕田者能够

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may 

听见溅水声，被抛弃的哭声，

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, 

但对他而言这不是重要的失败；太阳朗照

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone 

他白皙的大腿湮没于碧绿的

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green 

水面；奢华的兰舟必然目睹了

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen 

一些事物的惊诧，一个男孩自天而坠

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, 

他有处可去，在那里能平静地航行。

Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.