Time

Time

 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
Who shall put forth on thee,
Unfathomable Sea?

时间

 查良铮 译

幽深的海呵！年代是你的浪波；
时间的海呵，充满深沉的悲伤，
你被眼泪的盐水弄得多咸涩！
你的波流浩荡无边，在你的水上
潮汐交替，那就是人生的界限！
你已倦于扑食，但仍在咆哮无餍，
把破碎的船吐在无情的岸沿；
你在平静时险诈，风涛起时可怕，
呵，谁敢航行一只小船，
在你幽深难测的洋面？

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