用一首英文诗诠释小林一茶的俳句

小林一茶 俳句

?我就撒把米

?也有罪过惹动鸡

?相互争斗起

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?米蒔くも罪ぞよ鶏が蹴合ふぞよ

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A Question

by Ellis Parker Butler

 

 Whene'er I feed the barnyard folk

 My gentle soul is vexed;

My sensibilities are torn

 And I am sore perplexed.

The rooster so politely stands

 While waiting for his food,

But when I feed him, what a change!

 He then is rough and rude.

He crowds his gentle wives aside

 Or pecks them on the head;

Sometimes I think it would be best

 If he were never fed.

And so I often stand for hours

 Deciding which is right—

To impolitely have enough,

 Or starve and be polite.