原文: The Shadow on the Stone

I went by the Druid stone

That broods in the garden white and lone,

And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows

That at some moments fall thereon

From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,

And they shaped in my imagining

To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders

Threw there when she was gardening.

　

I thought her behind my back,

Yea, her I long had learned to lack,

And I said: "I am sure you are standing behind me,

Though how do you get into this old track?"

And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf

As a sad response; and to keep down my grief

I would not turn my head to discover

That there was nothing in my belief.

　

Yet I wanted to look and see

That nobody stood at the back of me;

But I thought once more: "Nay, I'll not unvision

A shape which, somehow, there may be."

So I went on softly from the glade,

And left her behind me throwing her shade,

As she were indeed an apparition-

My head unturned lest my dream should fade.

　

译文: 石头上的影子

我沿着德鲁伊石漫步，

花园里弥漫着洁白而孤独的气氛。

我停下脚步，目光追随错落的阴影，

某一刻，它们倏然而至，

在树丛中，摇曳生姿，

它们映入了我的眼帘。

树荫下，一个妇孺皆知的背影，

那时那地，她在修剪花草。
　

I
我以为，她在我的身后，

是她，我的希望不再落空，

然后我说：“我敢肯定，你就站在我的身后，

只是，你是怎么进入这条小路的呢？”

除了落叶的声音，周围静悄悄。

没有回音……我努力控制自己的悲伤，

我不想回过头去，

因为我的信念已成空。
　


然而，我还是忍不住回过了头去，

我看到没有人在我的身后；

但是我又一次想到：“是的，我将看不到

你的影子，无论，它是什么形状。”

所以，我轻轻地离开了这片荒地，

离开了你，和你的影子。

她真的是我头脑中的一个幻象，

我不会再后退，除非我的梦消逝。