小可同学远在布鲁克林，在课上学习到李白的长干行，微信讲起，令我和他都感到有些困惑和惊异，当然更多是有欢喜。
奥登的翻译虽多不尽人意之处，但举隅茫茫中文，地名佶屈聱牙，用典又有颇多蜿蜒，能“达诂”殊非易事。
附李白原文：
长干行二首[ 唐 ] 李白
[其一]妾发初覆额，折花门前剧。郎骑竹马来，绕床弄青梅。同居长干里，两小无嫌猜。十四为君妇，羞颜尚不开。低头向暗壁，千唤不一回。十五始展眉，愿同尘与灰。常存抱柱信，岂上望夫台。十六君远行，瞿塘滟预堆。五月不可触，猿鸣天上哀。门前迟行迹，一一生绿苔。苔深不能扫，落叶秋风早。八月蝴蝶来，双飞西园草。感此伤妾心，坐愁红颜老。早晚下三巴，预将书报家。相迎不道远，直至长风沙。
[其二]忆妾深闺里，烟尘不曾识。嫁与长干人，沙头候风色。五月南风兴，思君在巴陵。八月西风起，想君发扬子。去来悲如何，见少别离多。湘潭几日到，妾梦越风波。昨夜狂风度，吹折江头树。淼淼暗无边，行人在何处。北客真王公，朱衣满江中。日暮来投宿，数朝不肯东。好乘浮云骢，佳期兰渚东。鸳鸯绿浦上，翡翠锦屏中。自怜十五馀，颜色桃李红。那作商人妇，愁水复愁风。
奥登译文：[其一]
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
BY Ezra Pound
After Li Po
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chōkan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.
At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever, and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?
At sixteen you departed
You went into far Ku-tō-en, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Chō-fū-Sa.
