Katherine Mansfield - The Gulf 汉译

A Gulf of silence separates us from each other.

I stand at one side of the gulf, you at the other.

I cannot see you or hear you, yet know that you are there.

Often I call you by your childish name

And pretend that the echo to my crying is your voice.

How can we bridge the gulf? Never by speech or touch.

Once I thought we might fill it quite up with tears.

Now I want to shatter it with our laughter.

深渊

凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德

隔离着你我的是一个沉默的深渊。

我站在渊的这一边，你在那一边。

我见不到也听不到你，可知道你是在那里。

我再三提着你的小名儿呼唤你，

还把我衍自己叫的回声当作你的答应。

我们如何填起这个深渊？

再不能用口，也不能用手。

我先前曾想我们许可以把眼泪

来填得它满满的。

现在我要用我们的笑声来

销毁了它。

（徐志摩 译）