双语诗歌·忽必烈汗

忽必烈汗

Kubla Khan

柯尔律治

S. T. Coleridge

柯尔律治（S. T. Coleridge，1772-1834），英国浪漫派的重要诗人，“湖畔派”诗人之一。他的诗常把自然景色与超自然的神秘力量结合在一起，充满奇特的想象，形成他独特的诗风。作品《忽必烈汗》、《老水手吟》、《克丽斯德蓓》等都充满了神秘莫测的气氛，是这一风格的集中体现，也代表了浪漫派神奇瑰丽的一个方面。代表作《忽必烈汗》突出地体现了诗的音乐感，用声音描绘出梦幻和奇想中异彩纷呈的景色。《午夜霜》以较为沉静的诗风探讨了自然与人在内在精神方面的关系。

忽必烈汗在上都下令

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

造一座堂皇的安乐殿堂：

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

这地方有圣河亚佛流奔，

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

穿过深不可测的洞门，

Through caverns measureless to man

直流入不见阳光的海洋。

Down to a sunless sea.

有方圆五英里肥沃的土壤，

So twice five miles of fertile ground

四周给围上楼塔和城墙：

With walls and towers were girdled round:

花园处处，溪河在蜿蜒闪耀，

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills

树枝上鲜花盛开，一片芬芳；

Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

连片的森林，跟山峦同样古老，

And here were forests ancient as the hills,

围住了洒满阳光的青青草场。

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

但是，啊！那深沉而奇异的巨壑

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

沿青山斜裂，横过伞盖的柏树！

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

野蛮的地方！既神圣而又着了魔——

A savage place! as holy and enchanted

好像有女人在衰落的月色里出没，

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

为她的魔鬼情郎而凄声嚎哭！

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

巨壑下，不绝的喧嚣在沸腾汹涌，

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

像大地在喘息，快速而强烈地悸动，

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

巨壑里，不时迸出股猛烈的地泉；

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

在它那时断时续的涌迸之间，

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

巨大的石块飞跃着像反跳的冰雹，

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

或者像打稻人连枷下一撮撮新稻；

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

从这些舞蹈的岩石中，时时刻刻

And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

不绝地迸发出那条神圣的溪河。

It flung up momently the sacred river.

迷乱地移动着，蜿蜒了五英里地方，

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

那神圣的溪河流过了峡谷和森林，

Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

于是到达了深不可测的洞门，

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

喧闹着沉入那没有生命的海洋；

And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:

从那喧嚣中忽必烈远远地听到

And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

祖先的喊声预告着战争的凶兆！

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

安乐宫殿的依稀倒影

The shadow of the dome of pleasure

宛在水波的中央漂动；

Floated midway on the waves;

这儿能听见和谐的音韵

Where was heard the mingled measure

来自那地泉和那岩洞。

From the fountain and the caves.

这是个奇迹呀，算得是稀有的技巧，

It was a miracle of rare device,

阳光灿烂的安乐宫，和雪窟冰窖！

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

有一回我在幻象中见到

A damsel with a dulcimer

一位手拿扬琴的姑娘：

In a vision once I saw:

那是个阿比西尼亚 少女，

It was an Abyssinian maid,

在她的琴上她奏出乐曲，

And on her dulcimer she played,

歌唱着阿伯若山岗。

Singing of Mount Abora.

如果我心中能再现

Could I revive within me

她的音乐和歌唱，

Her symphony and song,

我将被引入深切的欢忭，

To such a deep delight'twould win me,

能用音乐高朗又久长

That with music loud and long,

在空中建造那安乐宫廷，

I would build that dome in air,

那日照的宫廷，那雪窖冰窟！

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

谁听见乐音就见到这宫廷，

And all who heard should see them there,

他们全都喊：当心！当心！

And all should cry, Beware ! Beware!

他飘动的头发，他闪光的眼睛！

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

组成个圆圈，围绕他三箍，

Weave a circle round him thrice,

闭拢你两眼，虔敬而畏惧，

And close your eyes with holy dread,

因为他一直吃着蜜露，

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

一直饮着天堂的仙乳。

And drunk the milk of Paradise.