寂寞 鄉下小孩子怕寂寞,枕頭邊養一只蟈蟈;長大了在城裡操勞,他買了一個夜明表。 小時候他常常羨豔墓草做蟈蟈的家園;如今他死了三小時,夜明表還不曾休止。 -卞之琳 Lone-li-ness The boy from the countryside dreaded loneliness,So he kept a grasshopper by the pillowcase;He grew up labouring in town,and bought a watch that shines all night long. As a child he’d always envied the grasshopperswho homed in the graveyard grass;Now the old boy is dead for three hours,The second-hand of…