The Wasteland-4

The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)

Part 4 DEATH BY WATER
四、溺死

PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
扶裡巴斯，那腓尼基人，死了兩星期，
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell
他忘了海鷗的啼喚和深海裡的巨浪，
And the profit and loss.
以及利潤和損失。
A current under sea
海底的一股洋流
Picked his bones in whispers.
低語著啄他的骨頭。
As he rose and fell
就在一起一落之間
He passed the stages of his age and youth
他經歷了蒼老和青春的階段
Entering the whirlpool.
而進入旋渦。
Gentile or Jew
猶太或非猶太人呵，
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
你們轉動輪盤和觀望風向的，
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
想想他，也曾像你們一樣英俊而高大。