THE WEATHER QUESTION
有關天氣的問題
Anna Bird Stewart
作者:安娜·伯德·斯圖爾特
I wonder how the weather’s made?
我想知道天氣如何形成?
And where the factory stands?
工廠在哪里?
And if our weather merchants trade
天氣商人是否
In all the foreign lands?
在海外做生意?
I wonder where they get the things
我想知道他們從哪兒弄到這些東西
To make the snow and storm,
制造出了雪和風暴,
And winds that howl and winds that sing,
咆哮的風和歌唱的風,
And days so bright and warm?
還有明亮溫暖的天氣呢?
And just what sort of things they are
它們屬于哪種東西
Is what I wonder most.
是我最好奇的。
Are they expressed from very far?
它們是從很遠的地方快遞來的嗎?
Or sent by Parcel Post?
還是用包裹郵寄的?
Suppose a weather famine came,
假設饑荒來了,
And every bit had fled—
每一塊都跑掉了——
I wonder who would get the blame?
我想知道該怪誰?
What could we use instead?
我們可以用什么來代替呢?