Death Fugue Paul Celan

 Death FuguePaul Celan - 1920-1970 translated by Pierre Joris

Black milk of morning we drink you evenings

我饮晨乳你夜饮
we drink you at noon and mornings we drink you at night

日午昼夜把你饮
we drink and we drink

饮饮饮
A man lives in the house he plays with the snakes he writes 

 宅男戏蛇亦弄文
he writes when it darkens to Deutschland your golden hair Margarete

他写罪德金发姐——玛格丽特跃纸来
he writes and steps in front of his house and the stars glisten and he whistles his dogs to come写罢入室门前观   

星烁吹哨他唤犬
he whistles his jews to appear let a grave be dug in the earth  掘地挖坟犹太 显

      一哨唤唤至眼前
he commands us play up for the dance

手舞足蹈由他意

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night

晨乳饮饮黑漆夜
we drink you mornings and noontime we drink you evenings 

 日午昼夜把你饮
we drink and we drink 

 饮 饮 饮
A man lives in the house he plays with the snakes he writes 

宅男戏蛇亦弄文
he writes when it turns dark to Deutschland your golden hair Margarete

     写时德国愈转暗 

     衬出玛姐此金发
Your ashen hair Shulamit we dig a grave in the air there one lies at ease

舒姐满头发色灰  

掘坟宜尸塚气宓

He calls jab deeper into the earth you there and you other men sing and play

他命锐斧深凿处 

你等玩耍歌舞戏

he grabs the gun in his belt he draws it his eyes are blue

      腰间拔枪蓝眼狞
jab deeper your spades you there and you other men continue to play for the dance

枪刺你胸心桃褐 

你等彼此舞不停

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night

 我饮晨乳你夜饮
we drink you at noon we drink you evenings 

 日午昼夜把你饮
we drink you and drink 

 饮饮饮
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete

玛姐金发宅男处
your ashen hair Shulamit he plays with the snakes

舒姐发暗他戏蛇

He calls out play death more sweetly death is a master from Deutschland

    越死越乐更成戏  

    导演正是德国主he calls scrape those fiddles more darkly then as smoke you’ll rise in the air

     如烟袅袅你升天  

      弦瑟尖利更暗暗
then you’ll have a grave in the clouds there you’ll lie at ease

天塚合你云端阔

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night

      晨乳褐褐夜饮时
we drink you at noon death is a master from Deutschland

      日午饮时死缘德
we drink you evenings and mornings we drink and drink

    昼夜饮乳一再饮
death is a master from Deutschland his eye is blue

     死王主子蓝碧眼
he strikes you with lead bullets his aim is true

     他意确击你中弹
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete

      宅男屋中有玛姐
he sets his dogs on us he gifts us a grave in the air

    他赐天下狗傍坟
he plays with the snakes and dreams death is a master from Deutschland

戏蛇入梦死得（德）主

your golden hair Margarete

你缘金发 Margarete

your ashen hair Shulamit

你缘灰发 Shulamit