空 青春　與　愛情　可以永生

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And the shut shops, the bleached
Established names on the sunblinds,
The farthings and sovereigns,
And dark-clothed children at play
Called after kings and queens,
The tin advertisements
For cocoa and twist, and the pubs
Wide open all day--

And the countryside not caring:
The place names all hazed over
With flowering grasses, and fields
Shadowing Domesday lines
Under wheat's restless silence;
The differently-dressed servants
With tiny rooms in huge houses,
The dust behind limousines;

Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.

關於戰爭的詩，中國古代也有很多，朝代更迭，政治理想包藏著權利野心，人民就像刀俎上的魚肉。這首是譯為一九一四年 嗎？

一九一四年是第一次世界大戰爆發的年份。

沒有讀英文詩的習慣，今天不小心看到它的。

這首讓我覺得很震撼，怎麼說呢？嗯......它不是用很濃郁的顏色或是一個血腥的畫面，詩的開始在描述一些稀鬆平常的景，只是它的景色漸漸被陰影籠罩，給人的不安感是層層堆疊上的，到最後一段作者才控訴

The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer

作者給的評論是

『Never such innocence』

『Never such innocence again』

這個字『innocence』用的真好，真的很諷刺。

好棒的作品，希望我的寫作能力能企及這種程度。