詩の解釈
Edna St. Vincent Millayの"If Still Your Orchards Bear"という詩の解釈ができなくて困っています。
訳ができる方、もしくは内容の解釈ができる方はお願いします。
Brother, that breathe the August air
Ten thousand years from now,
And smell --- if still your orchards bear
Tart apples on the bough ---
The early windfall under the tree,
And see the red fruit shine,
I cannot think your thoughts will be
Much different from mine.
Should at that moment the full moon
Step forth upon the hill,
And memories hard to bear,
By moonlight harder still,
Form in the shadows of the trees, ---
Things that you could not spare
And live, or so you thought, yet these
Are gone, and you still there,
A man no longer what he was,
Nor yet the thing he'd planned,
The chilly apple from the grass
Warmed by your living hand ---
I think you will have need of tears;
I think they will not flow;
Suppposing in ten thousand years
Men ache, as they do now.
お礼
早速の回答ありがとうございます。 仮定法が苦手なので、いつも解釈に戸惑ってます。 ありがとうございました。