一千个春天的畅想

            ---东风译

大地回春之绿
染过田野，小径，阔叶布满的山林；
透着紫脉的白罗兰，风中轻摇，
半醒的懒腰；

一树一树的梨花，李花，苹果花，
赶在绿叶抽芽前，催发；
傲立于枝梢的云白，蜂群的踩踏
陌生，一如新涌而至的悲哀。

一千个春天，来了又去
阳光下，不留一丝痕迹：
那些脸颊清爽如新绿的青年，闪着灰亮的眸子，
凝望彼此，

畅想，就像我如今，
徒劳地寻觅，我不曾找到的消息，
微笑着，当他走近，携我手的瞬间，
已不在尘世里。

2022.3.3.

译自：

Wonder and a Thousand Springs

by William Alexander Percy

Along the just-returning green
That fledges field and berm and brake
The purple-veined white violets lean,
Scarcely awake;

And pear and plum and apple trees,
Evoked to bloom before they leaf,
Lift cloudy branches filled with bees
Strange as new grief.

A thousand springs will poise and pass
And leave no track beneath the sun:
Some gray-eyed lad, cool-cheeked as grass,
Will watch each one,

And wonder, as I wonder here,
And find no clue I have not found,
And smile before he joins me, near
But underground.