A Seed (译）一颗种子

吕丁倩

A Seed

See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,

And through the Winter neglected lay,

Uncoils two little green leaves and two brown,

With tiny root taking hold on the clay

As, lifting and strengthening day by day,

It pushes red branchless, sprouts new leaves,

And cell after cell the Power in it weaves

Out of the storehouse of soil and clime,

To fashion a Tree in due course of time;

Tree with rough bark and boughs' expansion,

Where the Crow can build his mansion,

Or a Man, in some new May,

Lie under whispering leaves and say,

"Are the ills of one's life so very bad

When a Green Tree makes me deliciously glad?"

As I do now. But where shall I be

When this little Seed is a tall green Tree?

William Allingham

Irish

一颗种子

有这么一颗种子， 被秋风吹落在地，

躺在泥土里，整个冬天没人理睬，

舒展开两片小绿叶，两片棕色叶子，

纤细的根须紧紧抓住泥土，

一天天长高， 一天天强壮，

泛红色的主杆挺拔，抽绽出新叶，

自身细胞繁衍，蕴积力量，

它破土而出，执着地攀升，

历时形成一棵大树；

树皮粗糙，枝条向四面伸展，绿荫如盖，

乌鸦在此垒起宽敞的巢窝，或许，

初入五月，有人躺在婆娑的树荫下说

“ 有这样一棵绿色大树使我心旷神悦，

生活中的烦恼怎么会糟糕呢？”

我的生活有烦恼。 等一颗种子长大成荫，

那时我将会在哪儿呢？

威廉 阿林翰

爱尔兰

　　William Allingham (1824 – 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poems are noticeable。

威廉 阿林翰 是爱尔兰诗人，编辑。他写了好几部诗歌， 受到关注。

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