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The Second Coming

基督再临

William Butler Yeats

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

Turnig and turning in the widening gyre

猎鹰绕着越来越大的圈子不停地盘旋

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

再也听不见放鹰人的呼唤；

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

万物分崩离析；中心难以为系；

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

世上只落下一盘散沙的无政府主义，

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

血色迷糊的潮流奔腾汹涌，

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

天真的仪典，亦忍为滔天血浪所湮没;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

至善者毫无信心，而至恶者

Are full of passionate intensity.

却躁动不止。

Surely some revelation is at hand;

一准是某种启示已近在眼前；

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

一准是基督再临就在眼前。

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

基督再临！话未出□，

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

一个巨大的形象便出现在人们脑际

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

令我花了眼：在大漠沙海之中，

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

一个獅身人面的形体

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

目光如烈日般茫然而无情。

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

正缓慢地挪动腿脚，周围环绕着

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

—群义愤的沙漠鸟的影子。

The darkness drops again; but now I know

黑暗再度降临；不过现在我知道

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

过去两千年岩石般的沉睡

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

都被摇篮摇成了噩梦般的烦恼，

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

何等粗野的畜牲，它的时辰巳至，

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

慵懒地朝伯利恒走去投生。