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If You Were Coming in The Fall Emily Dickinson 如果你秋天来艾米莉·狄金森（丁骏 译）If you were coming in the Fall, I’d brush the summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, As housewives do, a Fly.如果你秋天来，我就把夏天掸走，浅笑半弃，如同主妇们对，一只苍蝇。If I could see you in a year, I&`&d wind the months in balls —And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse —如果我一年后能见你，我就把所有的月份绕成球——一球放一个抽屉，只因害怕数字会熔焊——If only centuries, Delayed, I&`&d count them on my hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen’s Land. 如果只是迟了，几个世纪，我就在我的手上数，减啊减，直到我的指头都掉了落入塔斯马尼亚之土。If certain, when this life was out—That yours and mine, should be, I&`&d toss it yonder, like a Rind, And take Eternity—如果肯定，等这一生完结——才是，你的和我的，我就把这一生远远掷了，如一张果皮，再就着永恒——But, now, uncertain of the length Of this, that is between,It goads me, like the Goblin Bee—That will not state — its sting.可眼下，长短不得而知这，见与不见之间，刺痛着我，就像那妖蜂——不会说出——它的蜇刺。［Colette有话说］艾米莉·狄金森（Emily Dickinson，1830-1886）的诗已经不适第一次推啦。她生前高产而孤僻，不愿见客，诗歌也很少发表，人们称她为“阿默斯特的女尼”。她去世数十年后才得到文学界的认真关注，被现代派诗人追