秋天已近尾聲

2012年的秋末

2012年的秋天已近尾聲
一樹金黃即將落盡
Margaret
難道你在為這些落葉傷心？
葉子跟人沒甚麼兩樣
都是生死有命
等你的心長得再老一些
就能冷眼看世界
坦然面對離去


譯自Gerard Manley Hopkins的Spring and Fall
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
......