保罗·穆顿：布朗李为什么走了

陈东飚 译

布朗李为什么走了，他去了哪里，
即使现在都是个谜。
因为如果有哪个人应该满足
那就是他；两英亩大麦，
一英亩土豆，四头阉牛，
一头奶牛，一间石板瓦的房子。
最后一次看见他是出去犁地
在一个三月的早晨，又早又亮。

到中午布朗李就出名了；
他们发现一切都被抛弃了，
最后的器具都完好无损，他那对黑
马，像男人和妻子，
把自己的体重从一只脚换到
另一只脚，注目望向未来。


Why Brownlee Left

Why Brownlee left, and where he went,
Is a mystery even now.
For if a man should have been content
It was him; two acres of barley,
One of potatoes, four bullocks,
A milker, a slated farmhouse.
He was last seen going out to plough
On a March morning, bright and early.

By noon Brownlee was famous;
They had found all abandoned, with
The last rig unbroken, his pair of black
Horses, like man and wife,
Shifting their weight from foot to
Foot, and gazing into the future.