I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill,
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild,
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere,
The jar was gray and bere,
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

翻譯：

我把一只圓形的壇子
放在田納西的山頂。
凌亂的荒野
圍向山峰。

荒野向壇子涌起，
匍匐在四周，不再荒涼。
圓圓的壇子置在地上，
高高地立于空中。

它君臨四界
這只灰色無釉的壇子
它不曾產生鳥雀或樹叢，
與田納西別的事物都不一樣。