第43章 月亮看见的 What the Moon Saw 第十一晚到第二十晚 (第1/23页)

第十一个晚上

ELEVENth EVENING

“我要给你一幅庞贝的图画。” 月亮说。“我在郊区，在他们所谓的墓道上，在那些美丽的纪念碑矗立的地方，在很多年前，那些快乐的年轻人，头上戴着玫瑰花环，和莱伊斯的美丽姐妹们一起跳舞的地方。现在，死亡的寂静笼罩着四周。为那不勒斯效劳的德国雇佣兵在站岗、打牌和掷骰子；一群来自山那边的陌生人在一名哨兵的陪同下进入了这座城市。

“I will give you a picture of pompeii,” said the moon. “I was in the suburb in the Street of tombs, as they call it, where the fair monuments stand, in the spot where, ages ago, the merry youths, their temples bound with rosy wreaths, danced with the fair sisters of Lais. Now, the stillness of death reigned around. German mercenaries, in the Neapolitan service, kept guard, played cards, and diced; and a troop of strangers from beyond the mountains came into the town, acpanied by a sentry.

他们想看看这座从坟墓中崛起、被我的光芒照亮的城市；我给他们看铺着宽阔熔岩板的街道上的车辙；我给他们看门上的名字和仍然挂在那里的标志：他们在小院子里看到喷泉的水池，用贝壳装饰着；但是没有水柱向上喷涌，从绘有华丽壁画、有铜狗看门的房间里也没有传出歌声。

they wanted to see the city that had risen from the grave illumined by my beams; and I showed them the wheel-ruts in the streets paved with broad lava slabs; I showed them the names on the doors, and the signs that hung there yet: they saw in the little courtyard the basins of the fountains, ornamented with shells; but no jet of water gushed upwards, no songs sounded forth from the richly-painted chambers, where the bronze dog kept the door.

“这是一座死亡之城；只有维苏威火山轰鸣着它永恒的赞美诗，人们把它的每一节单独的诗句都称为一次喷发。我们去了用洁白大理石建造的维纳斯神庙，高高的祭坛在宽阔的台阶前面，哭泣的柳树在柱子间重新长出嫩绿的枝叶。空气透明而湛蓝，黑色的维苏威火山构成了背景，火焰不断从它那里喷出，就像松树的树干。在它上方，寂静的夜空中伸展着烟雾般的云彩，像松树的树冠，但却是血红色的光亮。在这群人中有一位女歌手，一位真正的、伟大的歌手。我在