余光中·《夜深似井》英译

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尽我的绳长探下去

怎么还不到水声？

蠢蠢的星子群

沿着苔壁爬上来

好慢啊

只怕还不到半路

井口就一声叫

天亮了

Deep As a Well the Night

Yu Kwang-chung

Deep as a well the night:

Not even the length of my rope

Reaches a rippling sound.

Up the mossy wall

How the wormy stars crawl!

Yet never so much as halfway up

Before the mouth of the well cries

“The day breaks!”

（余光中 译）