第82页 After dark vapors have oppressed our plains

After dark vapors have oppressed our plains
For a long dreary season, comes a day
Born of the gentle South, and clears away
From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.
The anxious month, relieved of its pains,
Takes as a long - lost right the feel of May;
The eyelids with the passing coolness play
Like rose leaves with the drip of summer rains
The calmest thoughts come round us; as of leaves
Budding, fruit ripening in stillness, autumn suns
Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves
Sweet Sappho's cheek, a sleeping infant's breath,
The gradual sand that through an hour - glass runs,
A woodland rivulet, a poet's death
漫長的嚴冬過去了，愁雲慘霧
不再壓向平原，從溫煦的南方
綻出明媚的晴天，病態的天空上
一切刺眼的污跡被滌盪清除
從痛苦中復蘇的日月心切，終於
收回了失去的權利：五月風光
眼亷逗弄著即將逝去的冰涼
像玫瑰花瓣逗弄夏雨的跳珠
寧靜的思緒湧起，使我們想到
花綻——果實悄悄地成熟——秋陽
向著黃昏裡靜靜的禾束微笑⋯⋯