2024-03-24 World Tuberculosis Day

【Secret Man (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            The sounds of rain on the roof

            Are like the sound of doves.

            It is long since there have been doves

            On any house of mine.

            It is better for me

            In the rushes of autumn wind

            To embrace autumn, without turning

            To remember summer.

            Besides, the world is a tower.

            Its winds are blue.

            The rain falls at its base,

            Summers sink from it.

            The doves will fly round.

            When morning comes

            The high clouds will move,

            Nobly as autumn moves.

            The man of autumn,

            Behind its melancholy mask,

            Will laugh in the brown grass,

            Will shout from the tower's rim.

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【《秘密男子》(1934)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

                雨打在屋頂上的響聲

                如同鴿子的聲響。

                好久沒有鴿子

                來過我家。

                我最好

                在秋風吹拂中

                去擁抱秋天，不再

                懷念夏天。

                況且，世界就像高塔。

                風是藍色的。

                雨落在塔底，

                由此淹沒夏天。

                鴿子會飛來飛去。

                當早晨來臨之際

                高雲消散，

                秋意漸濃。

                秋天的男子，

                在憂鬱的面具背後，

                會在棕草叢裡開懷大笑，

                會從高塔邊放聲狂叫。

【注】上大三的紐約仔回到賓州老家過春假，恰值春季拾掇後院殘枝落葉的大掃除，綠坪公司(Green Lawn Fertilizing)也在這周重啟本年度草地服務(從三月到九月總共6次施肥與雜草管控)，於是大家一起巧借初春的東風摧古拉朽冬天的印跡。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2019: March Madness @ Tenth Grade(高二的瘋狂三月)

2016: Trip to NYC for Danish/Russian Visas(丹麥／俄羅斯簽證紐約行)

2014: March Madness @ Fifth Grade(小學五年級的瘋狂三月)

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