第二次降临
第二次降临
叶芝
不断旋转着，猎鹰转的圈子越来越大，
它再不能听到放鹰人的声音；
万物已崩溃，中心不再掌控；
人世间只有混乱在弥漫，
血色模糊的大潮泛滥失度，
所到之处将纯真典礼淹没；
优秀的人信念全动摇不定，
恶劣者则满腔十足的狂热。
诚然某种启示即将到来；
诚然第二次降临即将到来。
第二次降临！几乎在话脱口之际，
一个巨像自灵魂体中升起
扰乱我的视线：沙漠中的某处
一个狮身人首的东西，
目光空洞且烈日般无情，
正缓缓移动步伐，它的四周
飞旋着怨愤的沙漠鸟的阴影。
黑暗再度笼罩；但此时我明白，
这沉睡如石的两千年，
被那摇动的摇篮所激而成梦魇，
而何等恶兽，它的时限终于等到，
懒懒地走向伯利恒去转世投生？
（伏生雪 译）
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The Poem by William Butler Yeats:
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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