野金銀花

菲利普·弗瑞諾

• 美麗的金銀花，
• 你粲然綻放于幽靜一角。
• 芳菲滿枝，無人垂顧，
• 迎風起舞，無人注目。
• 游子從不踐踏你的玉體，
• 過客從不催落你的淚滴。
• 造化令你素裹銀妝，
• 你得以遠離庸人的目光。
• 她賜予你一片綠陰蔥蔥，
• 她帶給你一泓流水淙淙。
• 恬靜的夏日倏然流淌，
• 你終于紅衰翠減，玉隕香消。
• 嫵媚動人，你卻無法盛顏久長，
• 落紅滿地，你令我黯然神傷。
• 縱然在伊甸樂園，人間天堂，
• 也難免一日凋零，滿目凄涼。
• 蕭瑟秋風，凄白秋霜，
• 你終于消失得無影無蹤。
• 朝霞暮露，
• 孕育了你嬌小的身軀。
• 你從塵土來，又歸塵土去，
• 來時一無所有，去時化作塵土，
• 可嘆生命苦短，
• 你終究紅消香斷。

英文原詩：

The Wild Honey-Suckle

By Philip Freneau

• Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
• Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
• Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,
• Unseen thy little branches greet;
• ...No roving foot shall crush thee here,
• ...No busy hand provoke a tear.
• By Nature's self in white arrayed,
• She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,
• And planted here the gaurdian shade,
• And sent soft waters murmuring by;
• ...Thus quietly thy summer goes,
• ...Thy days declinging to repose.
• Smit with those charms, that must decay,
• I grieve to see your future doom;
• They died--nor were those flowers more gay,
• The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
• ...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power
• ...Shall leave no vestige of this flower.
• From morning suns and evenign dews
• At first thy little being came:
• If nothing once, you nothing lose,
• For when you die you are the same;
• ...The space between, is but an hour,
• ...The frail duration of a flower.