Sand Dunes
By Robert Frost

Sea waves are green and wet,
But up from where they die,
Rise others vaster yet,
And those are brown and dry.

They are the sea made land
To come at the fisher town,
And bury in solid sand
The men she could not drown.

She may know cove and cape,
But she does not know mankind
If by any change of shape,
She hopes to cut off mind.

Men left her a ship to sink:
They can leave her a hut as well;
And be but more free to think
For the one more cast-off shell.

沙 丘
海浪是绿色的潮湿的
但在它们平息的处所，
依然卷着更大的浪涛
而且是褐色的干燥的。

那是变成沙丘的海洋
涌进渔夫栖息的村镇，
想用坚硬的沙子掩埋
海水不能淹死的人们。

海或许了解自身远近
但却藉由变化的规律，
希望从自己的思想中
将这里的人永远抹去。

人们留给它一条小船
供它摇晃甚至去吞没；
他们离开房屋将想着
如同抛弃无用的贝壳。