If Death Is Kind

齐云

If Death Is Kind

By Sara Tealsdale

Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning

We will come back to earth some fragrant night,

And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending

Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.

  

We will come down at night to these resounding beaches

And the long gentle thunder of the sea,

Here for a single hour in the wide starlight

We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

死神如若善良

文/莎拉.蒂斯黛尔  译/齐云

死神如若善良，让逝者还阳

在一个芳香的夜晚，我们再至尘寰

沿着那些小径找寻大海，俯身呼吸

同样低垂的白色的金银花的芬芳

夜晚，我们会抵达回响的海滩

大海之声，轻柔深远

廖廓的星辉下，片刻留连

欢欣，已死之人无拘无绊