Robert Frost - The Kitchen Chimney
廚房的煙囪-羅伯特.福瑞斯特
Builder, in building the little house,
工人在建筑小小的房子
In every way you may please yourself;
你可以使用任何方法愉悅自己
But please please me in the kitchen chimney:
但是請(qǐng)你能使我在煙囪里愉快
Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.
不要把我建在一個(gè)架子上
However far you must go for bricks,
然而你必須去拿磚塊
Whatever they cost a-piece or a pound,
不管花費(fèi)多少英鎊
But me enough for a full-length chimney,
但是對(duì)于我已經(jīng)是一條長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的炊煙
And build the chimney clear from the ground.
并且這條炊煙從地面升起
It's not that I'm greatly afraid of fire,
并不是因?yàn)槲液ε禄?br/>But I never heard of a housethat throve
因?yàn)槲覐膩?lái)沒聽說(shuō)過(guò)那樣的房子
(And I know of one that didn't thrive)
我也知道它們也不是拔地而起的.
Where the chimney started above the stove.
炊煙從火爐中升起
And I dread the ominous stain of tar
我害怕那巨大的煙灰
That there always is on the papered walls,
它們常常糊在紙墻上
And the smell of fire drowned in rain
雨水沖掉炊煙的味道
That there always is when the chimney's false.
這常常是炊煙的錯(cuò)誤
A shelf's for a clock or vase or picture,
一個(gè)鐘架或花瓶或一幅畫
But I don't see why it should have to bear
但是我不明白它為什么要忍受
A chimney that only would serve to remind me
一條炊煙常常能夠讓我記起
Of castles I used to build in air.
我在天空中所住的城堡好吧