Hawk Roosting
棲息之鷹
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
我棲息在樹端,雙眼緊閉。
在我如鉤般的頭與爪之間的身體:
紋絲不動(dòng),無夢(mèng)無息
或在熟睡中演練完美的獵殺和啄食。
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
高枝予我以便利!
空氣的浮力與太陽的光輝
成就了我的優(yōu)勢(shì);
地球上的一切都在接受我的檢閱。
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
我的雙爪緊緊抓住粗糙的樹皮。
萬物之主造就了我
我的利爪,以至于每一根羽毛:
如今,萬物盡在我的掌握之中。
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly —
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads —
或者一飛沖天,慢慢盤旋——
興之所至,手到擒來,因?yàn)橐磺卸际俏业摹?/p>
我的軀體里沒有別的念頭:
我的主旨就是撕開獵物的頭顱——
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
生死由我掌控。
我飛翔的目的清晰而唯一
直撲獵物,粉身碎骨。
我的權(quán)利不容爭辯:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
上帝護(hù)佑著我。
從一開始,就沒有任何改變。
我不允許任何改變。
一切如常,一如既往。