《无常》MUTABILITY [英] 雪莱 江枫译

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;

How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,

Streaking the darkness radiantly!-yet soon

Night closes round, and they are lost forever:

Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings

Give various response to each varying blast,                           

To whose frail frame no second motion brings

One mood or modulation like the last.

We rest. -A dream has power to poison sleep;

We rise. -One wandering thought pollutes the day;

We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;

Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:

It is the same! -For, be it joy or sorrow,

The path of its departure still is free:

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;

Nought may endure but Mutability.

江枫教授同名译本－

我们恰似荫蔽午夜明月的朵朵浮云，

发光、颤动、疾驰，何等活跃，

给黑暗划出明亮的条纹，然而转瞬，

夜幕收起，也就从此影失形消。

又似被忘却的琴，参差不齐的弦索

给多变的振动以多变的响应，

在这脆弱的乐器上，任何两次弹拨，

都奏不出同一种情致和声韵。

我们入睡，一个梦就足以毒害安息，

我们起身，一念遐思又会败坏一天；

感觉、构想、推理、欢笑或是悲啼，

抱紧心爱的灾难，摒弃恼人的忧烦：

全都一样！因为不论是喜、是恼，

离去的衢道，永远开敞；

人世间的明日绝不会雷同于今朝，

万古不变的，独有无常。 

《无常》MUTABILITY [英] 雪莱 江枫译