“喂，孤寂的工人，你为什么
痴痴地站在这儿瞪着伊的坟墓，
好像偌大的坟园只葬着伊一个？”
“万一你那双绝望的眼睛，
在这凄冷的月光里恼怒了伊的魂灵，
万一伊的鬼走了出来，可不要吓死了人？”
“你懂什么！那可不真趁了我的心愿！
我宁愿见伊的鬼，不愿看谁的面。
可怜呵，我那会有那样的奇缘!”
“这样看来，伊一定是你恋爱的人，
安乐与患难变不了你的心；
如今伊死了，你便失了你的光明？”
“不是的：伊不曾受过我爱情的供养；
我当时总觉得别人都比伊强；
可怜伊在日，我从不曾把伊放在心上！”
十四·七·二十三
译Thomas Hardy’s In The Moonlight．（Selected Poems，P．127．）
IN THE MOONLIGHT
“O lonely workman，standing there
In a dream，why do you stare and stare
At her grave，as no other grave there were？”
“If your hopeless eyes so importune
Her soul by the shine of this corpse-cold moon，
Maybe you’ll raise her phantom soon！”
“Why，fool，it is what I would rather see
Than all the living folk there be；
But alas，there is no such joy for me！”
“Ah-she was one you loved,no doubt,
Through good and evil，through rain and frought，
And when she passed，all your sun went out？”
“Nay；she was the woman I did not love，
Whom all the others were ranked above，
Whom during her life I thought nothing of．”