扶里巴斯，那腓尼基人，死了兩星期，
他忘了海鷗的啼喚，深淵裡的巨浪，
利潤和損失。
海底的一股洋流
低語著啄他的骨頭。就在一起一落時光
他經歷了蒼老和青春的階段
而進入旋渦。
猶太或非猶太人呵，
你們轉動輪盤和觀望風向的，
想想他，也曾像你們一樣漂亮而高大。
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.