晚鐘

(美) 朗費羅

Curfew

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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莊嚴又悲慟

哀傷復淒涼

宵禁鈴不靜

轟然晚鐘響

輕塵掩餘燼

寒氣息微光

晨與辛苦至

昏來不再忙

炊煙隱夜色

黑暗上門窗

萬籟俱闃寂

千踵幾未央

深閨杳無語

無聲入高堂

誰治普天下

安枕復遺忘

一卷既已畢

如日入榆桑

書生一斂手

留待後人頏

暗夜增奇幻

二者皆已忘

恰如灰中燼

彼逝兩茫茫

長歌聲已杳

故事業已講

萬戶入五更

寒石在爐床

黑暗復黑暗

黑幕影幢幢

安枕復遺忘

天下莽蒼蒼

譯於2008年1月10日星期四戴爾瑪

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.