A Little While 瞬间

齐云

A Little While

By Sara Tealsdale

A little while when I am gone

  My life will live in music after me,

As spun foam lifted and borne on

  After the wave is lost in the full sea.

A while these night and days will burn

  In songs with the bright frailty of foam,

Living in light before they turn

  Back to the nothingness that is their home.

瞬间

文/莎拉·蒂斯黛尔  译/齐云

在我死亡的瞬间

  生命将会暂居于乐曲

彼时有浪沫升旋

  沫是浪归沧海的遗余

瞬间，一生的日夜

  在乐曲声中燃尽成光

——晶沫伴随着音乐

随后没入虚无的故乡

译后记：原文交韵，奇行四步抑扬，偶行五步抑扬。此诗描写了死亡的瞬间，光怪陆离，颇为难解。希望我的理解是对的，而且在极其有限的格律空间内完成了翻译任务。此诗可与前译《心灵的梦想》互为解读，估计两首诗的写作时间很近。