the voice in the wind

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The Return Ezra Pound
歸返 艾哲拉．龐德 [trans. frc 2009 (c.)]

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See, they return; ah, see the tentative
　　Movements, and the slow feet,
　　The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
　　Wavering!
看啊，他們回來了；啊，看看他們
　　　躊躇的動作，步履緩緩，
　　　窒礙於行且未決的
　　　晃盪！

See, they return, one by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
　　　　　　and half turn back;
These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe,"
　　　　　　Inviolable,
看啊，他們歸來了，陸陸續續，
臉帶惶恐，似未轉醒；
雪彷彿也得猶豫
風也微語，
　　　　仍側側轉身；
這些人曾經是「嚴翼之族」
　　　　　神聖不侵，

Gods of the Wingèd shoe!
With them the silver hounds,
　　　　　　sniffing the trace of air!
添上飛翼之履的神祉們！
隨行的是銀亮的獵犬，
　　　　　　嗅起縷縷空氣！

Haie! Haie!
　　　These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.

Slow on the leash,
　　　　pallid the leash-men!
嘿咿！嘿咿！
　　　他們的迅襲曾經令人不及掩耳；
帶有尖深的馨氣；
他們過去是鮮血之魂。

曳著鎖鏈緩行，
　　　他們面無血色！

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