维吉尔：牧歌（中英对照）(6)

Cushioned on hyacinths—chews the pale-green grass,
Or woos some favourite from the herd. “Close, Nymphs,
Dictaean Nymphs, oh close the forest-glades!
If a bull’s random footprints by some chance
Should greet me! Lured, may be, by greener grass,
Or in the herd’s wake following, vagrant kine
May bring him straight into my father’s fold!”

接着他唱到阿塔兰塔停下飞奔的脚步，
凝望着地上的苹果，唱到法厄同姐妹
被涩苦的树苔包裹，化身为拔地而起、
高大纤挺的赤杨，唱到流浪的迦鲁斯
在帕纳塞斯河畔受到缪斯女神的引领，
以区区凡人之身登上了阿奥尼的圣山，
连福玻斯的歌队都全体起立向他致敬，
牧羊人莱纳斯——那位发间缀满闪闪
鲜花与苦芹的神圣歌者朗声对他说道：
“来吧，快收下此笛，它是缪斯的礼赠！
—Then sings he of that maid who paused to gaze
At the charmed apples—and surrounds with moss,
Bitter tree-moss, the daughters of the Sun,
Till up they spring tall alders. —Then he sings
How Gallus, wandering to Parnassus’ stream,