The Green Linnet

The Green Linnet

    by William Wordsworth

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequestered nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
And birds and flowers once more to greet,
My last year's friends together.

One have I marked, the happiest guest
In all this covert of the blest:
Hail to Thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, Linnet! in thy green array,
Presiding Spirit here to-day,
Dost lead the revels of the May;
And this is thy dominion.

While birds, and butterflies, and flowers,
Make all one band of paramours,
Thou, ranging up and down the bowers,
Art sole in thy employment:
A Life, a Presence like the Air,
Scattering thy gladness without care,
Too blest with any one to pair;
Thyself thy own enjoyment.

Amid yon tuft of hazel trees,
That twinkle to the gusty breeze,
Behold him perched in ecstasies,
Yet seeming still to hover;
There! where the flutter of his wings
Upon his back and body flings
Shadows and sunny glimmerings,
That cover him all over.

My dazzled sight he oft deceives,
A Brother of the dancing leaves;
Then flits, and from the cottage-eaves
Pours forth his song in gushes;
As if by that exulting strain
He mocked and treated with disdain
The voiceless Form he chose to feign,
While fluttering in the bushes.

绿山雀

  威廉•华兹华斯

在果树繁枝密叶的下方，
雪白的花瓣落到我头上，
周遭是一片耀眼的阳光，
春日里，晴朗和煦；
多美呀，在这隐僻的角落，
在我家果园椅子上独坐，
又一次欢迎鸟儿和花朵，
去年的旧侣又重聚！

这幸福生灵聚会的所在，
有一位小客人最为欢快：
甜美的歌喉，翎毛的华彩，
胜过所有的羽族；
欢迎你，山雀！你披着绿衫，
今天，你是这里的指挥官，
是你导演着五月的狂欢，
这里是你的领土！

春花朵朵，蝴蝶，鸣禽，
全都配成了一对对情人；
而你，来回游息于绿荫，
总是孤零零一个；
这生命，这精灵，象空气一样，
散布着欢乐，不知有忧伤，
你太幸运了，谁也配不上；
自个儿自得其乐！

微风里，榛树丛光影摇曳，
树丛间，瞧得见栖息的山雀，
它静立枝头，满心欢悦，
仿佛还想要飞升；
它飞起来了！拍着翅膀，
让缕缕阴影，闪闪阳光
洒在它头上，洒在它背上，
洒遍了它的周身！

它常常弄得我眼花撩乱，
错把它看成绿叶一片；
蓦然，它飞上田舍屋檐，
倾吐出滔滔歌曲；
它那琳漓畅快的歌咏，
仿佛是取笑，仿佛是嘲弄：
笑它自己方才在树丛
装哑巴，悄然无语。

（杨德豫 译）

威廉•华兹华斯