英漢對照|王爾德詩選：阿耳戈斯的劇院

The Theatre at Argos

Nettles and poppy mar each rock-hewn seat:

No poet crowned with olive deathlessly

Chants his glad song, nor clamorous Tragedy

Startles the air; green corn is waving sweet

Where once the Chorus danced to measures fleets;

Far to the East a purpls stretch of sea,

The cliffs of gold that prisoned Danae;

And desecrated Argos at my feet.



No season now to mourn the days of old,

A nation's shipwreck on the rocks of Time,

Or the dread storms of all-devouring Fate,

For now the peoples clamour at our gate,

The world is full of plague and sin and crime,

And God Himself is half-dethroned for Gold!



Argos,1877

阿耳戈斯的劇院

蕁麻與罌粟損毀了石制的座椅：

沒有帶著橄欖枝的詩人不歇地

吟唱他歡快的歌，也沒有喧囂的悲劇

震驚四座；綠色的麥苗甜蜜地搖曳

這里曾是合唱隊應和節(jié)拍起舞的地方；

遠離東方的是紫色的海岸線，

達那厄被囚禁的金色懸崖；

被褻瀆的阿耳戈斯在我的腳下。



現在來悲嘆古昔的歲月不合時令，

一艘民族的海船撞上時間的暗礁，

或遭遇吞噬一切的命運之恐怖風暴，

所以，而今人們在我們的大門前喧鬧，

這世界充滿了瘟疫、罪孽和惡行，

哦，上帝也因為金錢丟失了半個寶座！



阿耳戈斯，1877