据希腊神话，阿列苏莎为水中仙女，在河神阿尔菲的追逐下，从希腊越海逃到意大利西西里岛的奥特基。据说，阿尔菲的河水穿过地中海而不和海水相混，直到奥特基才和阿列苏莎的泉水汇流。又据罗马神话，阿列苏莎是月神狄安娜的仙女，浴于阿尔菲河中，为河神所追逐，直到奥特基，她求救于狄安娜，这位女神使她变为泉水。由于这条泉水流入河川而不与河水相混，阿列苏莎常被视为入污不染、坚贞纯洁的象征

ARETHUSA 阿列苏莎

1.

Arethusa arose

From her couch of snows

In the Acroceraunian mountains,—

From cloud and from crag,

With many a jag, 5

Shepherding her bright fountains.

She leapt down the rocks,

With her rainbow locks

Streaming among the streams;—

Her steps paved with green 10

The downward ravine

Which slopes to the western gleams;

And gliding and springing

She went, ever singing,

In murmurs as soft as sleep; 15

The Earth seemed to love her,

And Heaven smiled above her,

As she lingered towards the deep.

2.

Then Alpheus bold,

On his glacier cold, 20

With his trident the mountains strook;

And opened a chasm

In the rocks—with the spasm

All Erymanthus shook.

And the black south wind 25

It unsealed behind

The urns of the silent snow,

And earthquake and thunder

Did rend in sunder

The bars of the springs below. 30

And the beard and the hair

Of the River-god were

Seen through the torrent’s sweep,

As he followed the light

Of the fleet nymph’s flight 35

To the brink of the Dorian deep.

3.

‘Oh, save me! Oh, guide me!

And bid the deep hide me,

For he grasps me now by the hair!’

The loud Ocean heard, 40

To its blue depth stirred,

And divided at her prayer;

And under the water

The Earth’s white daughter

Fled like a sunny beam; 45

Behind her descended

Her billows, unblended

With the brackish Dorian stream:—

Like a gloomy stain

On the emerald main 50

Alpheus rushed behind,—

As an eagle pursuing

A dove to its ruin

Down the streams of the cloudy wind.

4.

Under the bowers 55

Where the Ocean Powers

Sit on their pearled thrones;

Through the coral woods

Of the weltering floods,

Over heaps of unvalued stones; 60

Through the dim beams

Which amid the streams

Weave a network of coloured light;

And under the caves,

Where the shadowy waves 65

Are as green as the forest’s night:—

Outspeeding the shark,

And the sword-fish dark,

Under the Ocean’s foam,

And up through the rifts 70

Of the mountain clifts

They passed to their Dorian home.

5.

And now from their fountains

In Enna’s mountains,

Down one vale where the morning basks, 75

Like friends once parted

Grown single-hearted,

They ply their watery tasks.

At sunrise they leap

From their cradles steep 80

In the cave of the shelving hill;

At noontide they flow

Through the woods below

And the meadows of asphodel;

And at night they sleep 85

In the rocking deep

Beneath the Ortygian shore;—

Like spirits that lie

In the azure sky

When they love but live no more.

一

从冰雪床榻起身，

阿列苏莎她启程，

离别了阿克劳瑟拉尼峰峦；②

穿云雾，过巉岩，

蜿蜒、转折向前，

引领着一条条明净的山泉，

从石阶上跳下，

霓虹似的长发

一路随波逐流，婉转委曲，

迈开轻盈的步履

走下西向的峡谷

把它铺砌得一派青葱碧绿；

她跳跃，她滑行，

总是吟唱着前进，

温柔的低吟宛如温柔的梦；

大地显然爱宠，

苍天给她笑容，

当她逡巡着走向大海之中。

二

这时勇猛的阿尔菲，③

骑乘着严寒的冰川，

用那三叉钢戟狠狠冲刺山峰；

终于在岩石之中

劈开了一道裂缝，

整个艾利曼特山脉一阵搐动。④

这使寂静的雪瓮

启封释放出南风，

获得了释放的暗黑色的南风，

协同滚滚的惊雷，

借助于地震雄威，

砸碎了囚禁地下泉水的牢笼。

透过奔腾的急湍，

可以清晰地看见

这位河神和他的须髯，

当他追随那位女神

光辉、敏捷的行程，

奔驰着赶到多利斯海的海边。⑤

三

“哦救救我，指引我，

快叫那大海隐蔽我，

他已经把我的头发狠命揪紧。”

喧嚣的大海听清，

激动了湛蓝的深心

应着她的祈请 海水豁然中分；

于是像一束阳光，

大地皙白的姑娘，

奔逃着潜入海底的深处藏稳；

她的波浪滔滔

也跟随着来到，

却不同多利斯咸涩海水相混；

仿佛碧玉的海面

出现阴暗的瑕斑，

阿尔菲从后面急匆匆地紧走，——

像一只凶猛的鹫

穷追着白鸽不舍，

俯冲而下，掠过风云的川流。

四

从海洋的神灵

在珍珠的王廷

主持那水域大政的庭苑下方；

穿过一堆又一堆无价的宝藏；

透过海流之间

由暗淡的光线

所编织成的色彩绚丽的图案；

从那些洞窟里面，

林间的夜色一般

朦胧幽暗的深绿的波浪下边：——

超过黑色的剑鱼，

赶上一条条鲨鱼，

从海洋翻卷似雪的浪花之下，

穿过海底的山峰

悬崖峭壁的裂缝，

来到他们在多利斯自己的家。

五

如今他们的泉水，

发源于埃纳山内，

向着晨曦抚照下的溪谷涌流；

一度分手的挚友

又结成同心侣俦，

为着水域的事业而辛勤奔走。

旭日初照上蓝天，

他们就纵身向前

从高山洞穴险峻的摇篮跳出；

亭午的日中时分，

流过山脚的森林

流过常春花开碧草如茵之处；

到了暗黑的夜晚，

宿在奥特基岸边⑥

不断荡漾着催眠的海水深层；

就像是两个精灵

安息在蔚蓝天穹，

他们相爱，但已经精疲力尽。

（1820年）

雪莱原作 江枫译

①据希腊神话，阿列苏莎为水中仙女，在河神阿尔菲的追逐下，从希腊越海逃到意大利西西里岛的奥特基。据说，阿尔菲的河水穿过地中海而不和海水相混，直到奥特基才和阿列苏莎的泉水汇流。又据罗马神话，阿列苏莎是月神狄安娜的仙女，浴于阿尔菲河中，为河神所追逐，直到奥特基，她求救于狄安娜，这位女神使她变为泉水。由于这条泉水流入河川而不与河水相混，阿列苏莎常被视为入污不染、坚贞纯洁的象征。

② 阿克劳瑟拉尼，古希腊埃庇尔境内山脉，今称基马拉。

③据希腊神话，阿尔菲为一条河的河神。阿尔菲河，希腊伯罗奔尼撒半岛上最大的河流，经奥林匹亚入地中海。

④艾利曼特山脉在古希腊阿凯狄亚境内。

⑤多利斯，在古希腊境内。

⑥奥特基，在西西里岛东南，塞拉库附近。。