558  A Visitor in Marl泥土里的访

A Visitor in Marl

Who influences Flowers

Till they are orderly as Busts

And elegant-as Glass

泥土里的访客

向花儿施展魔力 直到她们

井然有序地开放 像雕像一样

优雅 如同玻璃制成

Who visits in the Night

And just before the Sun

Concludes his glistening interview

Caresses-and is gone

他夜晚来访

于日出而归

结束他闪亮的会面

留下爱抚无限

But whom his fingers touched

And where his feet have run

And whatsoever Mouth he kissed

Is as it had not been

但是

无论他的指尖触摸过谁

无论他的足迹奔跑到哪

无论他的嘴唇亲吻过谁

却好似从未曾来过啊

C . 1862

1935