A Little Song Poem by Luo Zhihai

★ A Little Song

☆ Poetry by Amy Lowell


When you, my Dear, are away, away,
How wearily goes the creeping day.
A year drags after morning, and night
Starts another year of candle light.
O Pausing Sun and Lingering Moon!
Grant me, I beg of you, this boon.

Whirl round the earth as never sun
Has his diurnal journey run.
And, Moon, slip past the ladders of air
In a single flash, while your streaming hair
Catches the stars and pulls them down
To shine on some slumbering Chinese town.
O Kindly Sun! Understanding Moon!
Bring evening to crowd the footsteps of noon.

But when that long awaited day
Hangs ripe in the heavens, your voyaging stay.
Be morning, O Sun! with the lark in song,
Be afternoon for ages long.
And, Moon, let you and your lesser lights
Watch over a century of nights.



▲ Chinese Translation

★ 一首小歌

☆ [美国] 艾米•洛厄尔 (1874 -1925) 诗
☆ [中国] 罗志海 (1954-) 译


当你，走了，我亲爱的，走了
白天蹑手蹑脚，多么疲倦地离去
一年轮番摇曳，先是晨早然后夜晚
又开始另一年的烛光之旅
哦，暂缓日出，让月亮驻足缠绵！
赐予我，我求求你，给我这个恩赐

地球旋转绕行，太阳不死鸟
白天长途赛跑
还有，月亮滑过空气的云梯
自个儿闪烁，照耀你飘流的头发
钩住繁星，用力拉扯下
照亮浅浅入睡的中国城
噢，仁慈的太阳！善解人意的月亮！
把夜晚带过来，围观正午的脚步声

白天久久翘望
成熟的悬挂在天空中，你远航途中住宿
上午，啊，太阳！云雀歌唱
漫长岁月的下午
还有，月亮，请让你的幽幽之光
看守一世纪的晚上


2015年4月11日翻译
On April 11,2015, Translation