England in 1819

昨天讀到英國詩人雪徠(Percy Bysshe Shelley)的一首詩
是他用來抨擊當時的昏庸政治
對照現在台灣的亂象
真是不禁驚異其相似處
卻更不勝感嘆...

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,-- mud from a muddy spring,--
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,--
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,--
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,--
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless--a book sealed;
A Senate,--Time's worst statute unrepealed,--
Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

讓我試著釋譯：

國君昏庸盲目
外戚寵信如殘渣爛泥
又像水蛭般的吸附人民血汗
國君充耳不聞、視而不見、毫無所感
國力卻不斷衰退~

人民生活水深火熱
軍警卻揮舞刀劍、扼殺自由；
宗教忘了神和教義
充滿缺陷的法律不能伸張正義
國會也無能廢除或修改惡法...

這一切就彷彿死氣沉沉的墓地
但終究會有光榮的身影出現~
照亮原本暴雨肆虐的日子！