我聆听一位渊博的天文学家讲演（When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer）

pksunking

by Walt Whitman
译者：pksunking

我聆听一位渊博的天文学家讲演
看着一行行证明与数据陈列在眼前
那些表格与图示，被展示，被测量，被乘除加减
我坐在那里，聆听天文学家的讲演，房间里掌声一片
不知怎么，没过多久，我就感到恶心与厌倦
我起身，悄悄地，溜了出去
融进那神秘潮湿的夜晚空气
一次次抬起头
仰望那星空完美的静谧

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer;

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;

Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, 

Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.