Loveliest of Trees
最美的树
A. E. Housman · 豪斯曼
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
最美的树，如今樱桃树
沿枝挂满繁花，
站在林间的小径旁，
为复活节穿上白衣。
如今，在我七十年的寿数里，
二十年不再回来，
从七十个春天里减去二十，
只给我剩下五十个。
而要看尽繁花盛景，
五十个春天实在局促，
我要走遍这片树林，
去看樱桃树挂满如雪的花。
豪斯曼以「人生七十」的算数写春光短暂：五十个春天，够不够看遍花事？