LOVE. VI. -- 翻译练习（如果你会在秋天来）

LOVE VI.  by Emily Dickinson

爱 【六】 [美] 艾米莉·狄金森

If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. If only centuries delayed, I'd count them on my hand, Subtracting till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I'd toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity. But now, all ignorant of the length Of time's uncertain wing, It goads me, like the goblin bee, That will not state its sting.

如果你会在秋天来， 我就把夏天扫出门外 眼角含着笑，哪还正眼去瞧， 就像主妇们把一只乌蝇赶开。 如果一年后就可以见到你， 我就把十二个月团团绕起， 装入抽屉，日日抽取， 不留下一丝一缕。 如果你只是耽搁了几个世纪， 我会掰着手指把它们数清， 每过一个世纪就藏起一根， 直到所有的指头都没了踪影。 若能确信，当生命远离尘世， 你的和我的终将厮守， 我会把这皮囊远远丢开， 去品尝那永恒的美酒。 但时间它无常的羽翼到底有多宽 现在我连半点也搞不懂， 这哥布林化成的蜜蜂啊， 总在毫无防备的时候把我刺痛。