葬礼蓝调 I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

葬礼蓝调
W·H·奥登

让时钟全部停摆，把电话线拔掉，
给狗一根多汁的骨头让它不再吠叫，
让钢琴静默，让鼓声低沉，
抬出那灵柩，让哀悼者登门。

让头顶盘旋的飞机哀歌一曲
在空中拼写出“他已逝去”。
为鸽子的白颈系上绉纱领结，
让交通警戴上黑色的棉手套。

他是我的北，我的南，我的东与西，
我的工作日和休憩的星期日，
是我的正午，我的夜半，我的话语，我的歌；
我原以为爱会永续：我错了。

不再需要星星，让它们都熄灭，
裹起月亮，再把太阳拆卸，
将大海倾空，把森林连根拔除；
因为现在一切都已于事无补。
Funeral Blues
Wystan Hugh Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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