克拉肯

Cthulhu © Paul Carrick

丁尼生(Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892)是英國名詩人，《克拉肯》是他年輕時的作品。現在正在創作一篇小說，當中會引用到這首詩，想取現成的中文譯本，卻完全找不到中文版本的，於是只好自己 動手翻譯了。如果讀者有更好的建議，歡迎留言更正﹕

克拉肯

滔天雷霆，深淵汪洋
他古老﹑無夢﹑無擾地睡着
克拉肯睡着，微弱的日光遁逃
黑影環繞兩側
浪濤着千年萬丈海綿
黯淡光芒深處
那多重的玄秘洞穴和密室
無數巨型水螅
巨大的手臂拂去那沉睡的綠海
他在彼處沉睡了無盡歲月，也依然會沉睡下去
在他的睡梦中巩固着巨型海虫
直到末日火焰焚燃深淵之處
凡夫和天使才能目睹
他怒吼狂叫，昇起水面而死去

原文﹕

The Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.