▎这月色之美  　

这月色之美
没有历史
完整而又原始，
若此后这美丽
具备了别种特质
它会有一个爱人
而不复纯真。

这美有如一场梦魇
遵循了不同的时间，
在大白天
它就消失不见，
只因时光流转
感情也会生变，
而心魔随之出现，
迷茫又渴盼。

但对这纯真之美
魔鬼从未刻意而为，
要将美结束了断，
也未必如其所愿；
直到它渐行渐远，
爱才会临近此地
带来欢洽与甜蜜，
悲伤才会凝神注视
无休无止。

1930年4月

作者 / [美国]W.H.奥登
翻译 / 马鸣谦 蔡海燕

▎This Lunar Beauty  　

This lunar beauty
Has no history
Is complete and early,
If beauty later
Bear any feature
It had a lover
And is another.

This like a dream
Keeps other time
And daytime is
The loss of this,
For time is inches
And the heart’s changes
Where ghost has haunted
Lost and wanted.

But this was never
A ghost’s endeavor
Nor finished this,
Was ghost at ease,
And till it pass
Love shall not near
The sweetness here
Nor sorrow take
His endless look.

1930.4

Wystan Hugh Auden