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Curfew

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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庄严又悲恸

哀伤复凄凉

宵禁铃不静

轰然晚钟响

轻尘掩余烬

寒气息微光

晨与辛苦至

昏来不再忙

炊烟隐夜色

黑暗上门窗

万籁俱阒寂

千踵几未央

深闺杳无语

无声入高堂

谁治普天下

安枕复遗忘

一卷既已毕

如日入榆桑

书生一敛手

留待后人颃

暗夜增奇幻

二者皆已忘

恰如灰中烬

彼逝两茫茫

长歌声已杳

故事业已讲

万户入五更

寒石在炉床

黑暗复黑暗

黑幕影幢幢

安枕复遗忘

天下莽苍苍

译于2008年1月10日星期四戴尔玛

原文：

Curfew

Solemnly, mournfully,

  Dealing its dole,

The Curfew Bell

  Is beginning to toll.

Cover the embers,

  And put out the light;

Toil comes with the morning,

  And rest with the night.

Dark grow the windows,

  And quenched is the fire;

Sound fades into silence,—

  All footsteps retire.

No voice in the chambers,

  No sound in the hall!

Sleep and oblivion

  Reign over all!

The book is completed,

  And closed, like the day;

And the hand that has written it

  Lays it away.

Dim grow its fancies;

  Forgotten they lie;

Like coals in the ashes,

  They darken and die.

Song sinks into silence,

  The story is told,

The windows are darkened,

  The hearth-stone is cold.

Darker and darker

  The black shadows fall;

Sleep and oblivion

  Reign over all.