Spring is like a perhaps hand

春天像一只也许的手

(which comes carefully

（小心翼翼地来

out of Nowhere)arranging

自无处）布置着

a window,into which people look(while

一面橱窗，好多人向窗里望（当

people stare

好多人瞪眼望

arranging and changing placing

布置，而且调换，安排

carefully there a strange

小心翼翼地，那儿一件奇怪的

thing and a known thing here)and

东西，一件不奇怪的东西，这里）而且

changing everything carefully

换每一件东西，小心翼翼地

spring is like a perhaps

春天像一只也许的

Hand in a window

手，在一面橱窗里

(carefully to

（小心翼翼地，移来

and fro moving New and

移去，移新的和

Old things,while

旧的东西，当

people stare carefully

好多人瞪眼，小心翼翼地望

moving a perhaps

移一片也许的

fraction of flower here placing

花来这儿，挪

an inch of air there)and

一寸空气去那儿）而且

without breaking anything.

什么也没有撞坏

余光中 译