英国   A. E. 豪斯曼原著

Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 1936)

徐家祯翻译

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

最可爱的树呀，看那樱树

枝头正挂满樱花,

它伫立于林间小道旁,

为复活节将白花披挂。

在我一生的七十年中, (注1)

二十年已不会再来啦;

七十年除去二十春,

仅有五十个春天剩下。

自从看过鲜花盛开的事物,

五十春也就成了刹那。

我将到林间漫步,

去看樱树上挂着雪花。

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