Business Girls by John Betjeman. Satie - Gymnopedie No.2 (excerpt).

From the geyser ventilators
自燒水鍋爐的通風口
Autumn winds are blowing down
一陣陣秋風呼嘯而過
On a thousand business women
前有上千名商業女性
Having baths in Camden Town
在卡姆登鎮上沐浴著
Waste pipes chuckle into runnels,
廢水咯咯地流入溝渠
Steams escaping here and there,
蒸汽向四面八方逃逸
Morning trains through Camden cutting
早班列車方駛過站台
Shake the Crescent and the Square.
喚醒曲直交錯的街道
Early nip of changeful autumn,
初秋那莫測的冷空氣
Dahlias glimpsed through garden doors,
大麗菊窺見園中世界
At the back precarious bathrooms
身後是失修的衛浴間
Jutting out from upper floors ;
從上層樓板間探出來
And behind their frail partitions
而稀疏的隔牆另一邊
Business women lie and soak,
商業女性浸臥浴水中
Seeing through the draughty skylight
偶瞥見通風口的天光
Flying clouds and railway smoke.
雲朵和鐵路塵煙穿行
Rest you there, poor unbelovd ones,
在那歇息吧失愛之人
Lap your loneliness in heat.
讓孤獨在熱能中沉浸
All too soon the tiny breakfast,
來得太快了這頓早餐
Trolley-bus and windy street!
那電車，那起風的街道