可怜的尼采在杜林，吃着他妈妈从巴塞尔

Poor Nietzsche in Turin, eating sausage his mother

寄给他的香肠。租来的斗室，

Mails to him from Basel. A rented room,

一方小窗框着山峰上

A small square window framing August clouds

八月的云。苦思

Above the mountain. Brooding on the form

事物的形式：阿尔卑斯耧斗花

Of things: the dangling spur

悬垂的枝条，夏日阳光下雪松

Of an Alpine columbine, winter-tortured trunks

饱受冬日折磨的躯干，被积雪扭压而致

Of cedar in the summer sun, the warp in the aspen’s trunk

的白杨树干的翘曲。

Where it torqued up through the snowpack.

“荒原四处扩张；悲哉

“Every where the wasteland grows; woe

彼荒原在心中之人。”

To him whose wasteland is within.”

死于梅毒。不时修剪浓密的胡子。

Dying of syphilis. Trimming a luxuriant mustache.

热爱比才的歌剧。

In love with the opera of Bizet.