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第一节
O wild West Wind,
thou breath1 of Autumn's2 being3,
Thou,
from whose unseen presence4 the leavesdead5
Are driven, like ghosts6 from an
enchanter7 fleeing,
Yellow, and black,
and pale, and hectic8 red,
Pestilence-
stricken9 multitudes10: O thou,
Who
chariotest11 to their dark wintry bed
The winged12 seeds, where they lie cold
and low,
Each like a corpse13 within
its grave14, until
Thine azure15sister
of the Spring shall blow
Her
clarion16o'er17the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks18 to
feed in air)
With living hues19and
odours20plain21and hill:
Wild Spirit,
which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer22 and preserver23; hear, oh
hear!
第二节
Thou on whose
stream24, mid the steep sky's commotion25,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying26
leaves are shed,
Shook27from the
tangled28boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
Angels of rain and lightning: there are
spread29
On the blue surface30 of thine
aery surge31,
Like the bright hair
uplifted from the head
Of some fierce32
Maenad33, even from the dim34 verge35
Of the horizon36 to the zenith's
height,
The locks of the approaching37
storm. Thou dirge38
Of the dying year,
to which this closing night
Will be the
dome of a vast sepulchre39,
Vaulted
with all thy congregated40 might
Of
vapours41, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will
burst: oh hear!
第三节
Thou who didst waken from his summer
dreams42
The blue Mediterranean43,
where he lay,
Lull'd by the coil of his
crystalline44 streams,
Beside a
pumice45 isle in Baiae's bay46,
And saw
in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering47 within the wave's intenser
day48,
All overgrownwith azure moss and
flowers
So sweet, the sense faints
picturing them! Thou
For whose path49
the Atlantic's level powers50
Cleave
themselves into chasms51, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy52 woods
which wear
The sapless53 foliage54 of
the ocean, know
Thy voice, and
suddenly55 grow gray with fear,
And
tremble and despoil themselves56: oh hear!
第四节
If I were a
dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were
a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave
to pant beneath57 thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less
free
Than thou, O uncontrollable58! If
even
I were as in my boyhood, and could
be
The comrade59 of thy wanderings60
over Heaven,
As then61, when to
outstrip thy skiey speed62
Scarce
seem'd a vision63; I would ne'er have striven64
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore
need65.
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf,
a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of
life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours
has chain'd and bow'd
One too like
thee: tameless66, and swift, and proud.
第五节
Make me thy
lyre67, even as the forest is:
What if
my leaves are falling like its own!
The
tumult68 of thy mighty harmonies69
Will
take from both a deep, autumnal tone70,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou,
Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me71,
impetuous72 one!
Drive my dead thoughts
over the universe
Like wither'd leaves
to quicken a new birth!
And, by the
incantation73 of this verse,
Scatter74,
as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes75 and sparks, my words among76
mankind!
Be through my lips to
unawaken'd earth77
The trumpet of a
prophecy78! Oh Wind,
If Winter comes,
can Spring be far behind79?
1
、
bre
ath
：气息，呼吸。
2
、
Autumn
：秋天。
3
、
being
：存在，即事实上隶属于物质性世界或非物质世界。
4
、
unseen
presence
：看不见的存在，无形无相。
5
、
leaves
dead
：死叶，枯叶。
6
、
ghosts
：精神，灵魂。
7
、
enchanter<
/p>
：巫师，魔法师。
8
< br>、
hectic
：特指肺病患者脸上的病态红色。
9
、
Pestilence-
stricken
：感染瘟疫。
10
、
multitudes
：大量，许多
。
11
、
c
hariotest
：运载。
chariot
< br>是古代战车，此处作动词。
chariotest
是
chariot
的旧式拼写。
12
、
winged
：有
翼的。
13
、
corpse
：尸体。
14
、
grave
：墓穴。
15
、
azure
：蔚蓝的。
16
、
clarion
：号角。据《圣经》记载，在末日审判日，天使将吹响号
角，
一切死者将复活，接受上帝的裁判。
17
、
o'er
：
over
的缩略。诗中常用，因格律需要，可以用这个办法减少一
个音节。
18
、
flocks
：畜群，兽群。
19
、
hues
：色调。
20
、
odou
rs
：气味。
21
< br>、
plain
：平原。
22
、
Destroyer
< br>：破坏者。
23
、
preserver
：保护着。
24
、
stream
：水流。
25
、
co
mmotion
：暴乱，骚动。
26
、
decaying
：衰败，腐烂。<
/p>
27
、
Sho
ok
：等于
shaken
，摇荡，抖出
。
28
、
t
angled
：纠缠的，缠结的。
2
9
、
spread
：散布，蔓延。
30
、
surf
ace
：表面，表层。
31
、
surge
：波涛，巨浪。
< br>
32
、
fierce
：凶暴的，难以接近的。
33
、
Maenad
：酒神的女祭司。