偷睡眠者
谁从孩子的眼里把睡眠偷了去呢?我一定要知道。
妈妈把她的水罐挟在腰间,走到附近的村庄汲水去了。
这是正午的时候,孩子们游戏的时间已经过去了;池中的鸭子沉默无声。
牧童躺在榕树的荫下睡着了。
白鹤庄重而安静地伫立在芒果树边的泥泽里。
就在这个时候,偷睡眠者跑来从孩子的两眼里捉住睡眠,便飞去了。
当妈妈回来时,她看见孩子四肢着地地在屋里爬着。
谁从孩子的眼里把睡眠偷了去呢?我一定要知道。我一定要找到她,把她锁起来。
我一定要向那个黑洞里张望,在这个洞里,有一道小泉从圆的和有皱纹的石上滴下来。
我一定要到醉花林中的沉寂的树影里搜寻,在这林中,鸽子在它们住的地方咕咕地叫着,仙女的脚环在繁星满天的静夜里叮当地响着。
In the evening I will peep into the whispering silence of the bamboo forest, where fireflies squander their light, and will ask every creature I meet, "Can anybody tell me where the Sleep-stealer lives? "
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know.
Shouldn't I give her a good lesson if I could only catch her!
I would raid her nest and see where she hoards all her stolen sleep.
I would plunder it all, and carry it home.
I would bind her two wings securely, set her on the bank of the river, and then let her play at fishing with a reed among the rushes and water-lilies.
When the marketing is over in the evening, and the village children sit in their mothers' laps, then the night birds will mockingly din her ears with:
"Whose sleep will you steal now? "
我要在黄昏时,向飒飒静静的竹林里窥望,在这林中,萤火虫闪闪地耗费它们的光明,只要遇见一个人,我便要问他:“谁能告诉我偷睡眠者住在什么地方?”
谁从孩子的眼里把睡眠偷了去呢?我一定要知道。
只要我能捉住她,怕不会给她一顿好教训!
我要闯入她的巢穴,看她把所有偷来的睡眠藏在什么地方。
我要把它都夺了回来,带回家去。
我要把她的双翼缚得紧紧的,把她放在河边,然后叫她拿一根芦苇在灯心草和睡莲间钓鱼为戏。
当黄昏,街上已经收了市,村里的孩子们都坐在妈妈的膝上时,夜鸟便会讥笑地在她耳边说:
“你现在还想偷谁的睡眠呢?”