Vacillation / W.B. Yeats
振盪 / 葉慈
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
半百之年來了又走,
我,形單影隻,倫敦咖啡館
人潮裡獨坐。
大理石桌上
書頁攤開,空杯閒擺。
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.
凝視館內和窗外大街,
全身倏地燃起熱焰 ;
約莫二十分鐘的時間,
一股莫大喜悅
彷若無盡蒙福,亦能施與恩典。
(Mary May 譯)