狄金森
江楓(譯)
如果記住就是忘卻
我將不再回憶,
如果忘卻就是記住
我多么接近于忘卻碍庵。
如果相思映企,是娛樂,
而哀悼静浴,是喜悅堰氓,
那些手指何等歡快,今天苹享,
采擷到了這些双絮。
If recollecting were forgetting
If recollecting were forgetting,
Then I remember not.
And if forgetting, recollecting,
How near I had forgot.
And if to miss, were merry,
And to mourn, were gay,
How very blithe the fingers
That gathered this, Today!
本詩入選 北島《給孩子的詩》