<p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b>To a Waterfowl</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">致暮色中的水鸟</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;"></b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Whither, 'midst falling dew,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Thy solitary way?</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">你启程远飞,露水珠正从天洒落,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">白日的余光在天穹燃烧,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">远方玫瑰红云层深邃,你要独自穿越,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">去追寻孤独的旅程?</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Vainly the fowler’s eye</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">As, darkly seen against the crimson sky,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Thy figure floats along.</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">猎者无可奈何的目光</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;"> 或许捕捉到你的行踪,却无法伤害你,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">在绯红的天幕衬托下,依稀可见</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">你翱翔的身影。</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Seekst thou the plashy brink</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Or where the rocking billows rise and sink</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">On the chaféd ocean side?</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">你去寻找潮湿的泥沼地</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">在萋草丛生的湖畔?河域宽阔的缘岸?</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">或许,在波浪起伏</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">涛水拍击的海滩?</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">There is a Power, whose care</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, —</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">The desert and illimitable air</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Lone wandering, but not lost.</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">有个神奇的力量在呵护</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">指点你沿着茫茫的海际,——</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">在寂寥和浩渺无际的空中</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">独自遨游,而不迷失方向。</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">All day thy wings have fanned,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere;</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Though the dark night is near.</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">你终日不停地挥动双翼, </b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;"> 天高寒冷,空气稀薄;</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">疲倦未使你停落到就近的土地上,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">即使黑夜已经临近。</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">And soon that toil shall end,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Soon, o’er the sheltered nest.</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">不久,艰辛的旅途会结束,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">你将找到度夏的宿地,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">和伙伴们栖息欢鸣,芦苇丛弯腰伏身</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">遮挡你隐蔽的巢窝。</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Thou‘rt gone, the abyss of heaven</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Hath swallowed up thy form, yet, on my heart</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">And shall not soon depart.</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">你消失了,在悠远的天渊</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">潜形匿迹。然而在我的心扉上,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">深深镌刻着你给予的教诲,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">我会长久铭记。</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">He, who, from zone to zone,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 15px; color: inherit;">Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">In the long way that I must trace alone,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Will lead my steps aright.</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">他,遍及天涯异域,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">指引你飞越辽无边际的天空</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;">在我独自旅行的漫长途中,</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 18px; color: inherit;"> 将指点我不迷失方向。</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 20px; color: inherit;">End</b></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 20px; color: inherit;">完</b></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">威廉 卡伦 布莱恩,1794-1878 ,美国著名诗人。</b></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">在他21岁时,独自步行到一个小镇去求职当律师。途中,他看到一只孤独的水鸟飞过天际,触发灵感,当天写下这首誉满天下的励志抒情诗。</b></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">诗中意象是水鸟, 寓意他自己将不畏艰险,坚韧地走过人生之路。</b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;"></b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">诗中隐喻,人生的旅途是孤独的。</b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;"></b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;"></b></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">图片/网络</b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">译文/吕丁倩</b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">版权自持,转载请注明。</b></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">摄于纽约家后院</b></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px;">2021年8月</b></p>