【英诗鉴赏】I Like to See It Lap the Miles

Toyger

I Like to See It Lap the Miles
by Emily Dickinson

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then,prodigious,step

Around a pile of mountains,
And,supercilious,peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides,and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid,hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then,punctual as a star,
Stop——docile and omnipotent——
At its own stable door.

Toyger

我喜欢看它蜿蜒几英里

我喜欢看它蜿蜒几英里
时而舔着山谷爬起来
时而停下来 在油箱里喂饱自己
然后迈开惊人的大步

绕着重重叠叠的山峦
骄傲地盯着
路边简陋的小木屋
然后一个采石场削平了

好适合它的两侧，并让它爬过去
每一时刻它都在抱怨
用令人害怕的、呼呼作响的呼啸声
一节一节地
互相追逐着跑下山坡

像马嘶又像雷鸣
最后 它会像星星一样准时
停下——温顺地，无所不能地——
在它自己的驿站里

李杰玲 译