Andrew John Young
Come, love, for now the night and day
Play with their pawns of black and white,
And what day loses in her play
Is won by the encroaching night.
The clematis grows old and clings
Grey-bearded to the road-side trees
And in the hedge the nightshade strings
Her berries in bright necklaces.
The fields are bare; the latest sheaf
Of barley, wheat and rusty rye
Is stacked long since; and every leaf
Burns like a sunset on the sky.
Come, love, for night and day, alas,
Are playing for a heavier stake
Than hours of light or leaves or grass;
Come, love; come, love, for sweet love’s sake.
为秋日而唱
为秋日而唱
A.J.杨格
来吧，亲爱的，眼下日和夜
用它们的白子黑子下棋；
白天下棋中输掉的统统
被步步进逼的黑夜赢去。
老去的铁线莲长着白须，
紧攀在路边那些树木间；
而龙葵的浆果渲染树篱，
是一串一串明艳的项链。
野外里光秃秃，大麦、小麦
和赭色黑麦的末了一捆
早已堆好，而树叶的色彩
像天边的落日那样火红。
来吧，亲爱的，由于日和夜
现在都下了更大的赌注，
不止几小时的光或草叶；
来吧，亲爱的，为爱的缘故。
（黄杲炘 译）
