Sand Dunes
By Robert Frost
Sea waves are green and wet,
But up from where they die,
Rise others vaster yet,
And those are brown and dry.
They are the sea made land
To come at the fisher town,
And bury in solid sand
The men she could not drown.
She may know cove and cape,
But she does not know mankind
If by any change of shape,
She hopes to cut off mind.
Men left her a ship to sink:
They can leave her a hut as well;
And be but more free to think
For the one more cast-off shell.
沙 丘
海浪是綠色的潮濕的
但在它們平息的處所,
依然卷著更大的浪濤
而且是褐色的干燥的。
那是變成沙丘的海洋
涌進(jìn)漁夫棲息的村鎮(zhèn),
想用堅硬的沙子掩埋
海水不能淹死的人們。
?;蛟S了解自身遠(yuǎn)近
但卻藉由變化的規(guī)律,
希望從自己的思想中
將這里的人永遠(yuǎn)抹去。
人們留給它一條小船
供它搖晃甚至去吞沒;
他們離開房屋將想著
如同拋棄無用的貝殼。