W·H·奥登
范倍 译

他追求一种尽善尽美，
他创造的诗歌简单易懂；
他对人类的愚蠢了如指掌，
而且醉心于他的舰艇和军队;
他笑时，可敬的臣子也爆出大笑，
他哭时，小孩们则死在街头。

Epitaph on a Tyrant
W. H. Auden

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Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

From Another Time by W. H. Auden, published by Random House. Copyright ? 1940 W. H. Auden, renewed by The Estate of W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

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