Snow

Edward Thomas

In the gloom of whiteness,
In the great silence of snow,
A child was sighing
And bitterly saying: ‘Oh,
They have killed a white bird up there on her nest,
The down is fluttering from her breast!’
And still it fell through that dusky brightness
On the child crying for the bird of the snow.


雪

在純白的幽暗處,
在下雪巨大的寂靜中,
有個小孩嘆息著
悲痛地說: [啊,
他們殺了一隻白色的鳥, 在那上面她的巢上
絨毛從她胸上飄散!]
卻依然落到那陰沉的光亮中
在小孩哭叫著雪中之鳥時.