2021-11-20

【A Postcard from the Volcano】 

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Children picking up our bones

            Will never know that these were once   

            As quick as foxes on the hill;

            And that in autumn, when the grapes

            Made sharp air sharper by their smell   

            These had a being, breathing frost;

            And least will guess that with our bones   

            We left much more, left what still is

            The look of things, left what we felt

            At what we saw. The spring clouds blow   

            Above the shuttered mansion-house,   

            Beyond our gate and the windy sky

            Cries out a literate despair.

            We knew for long the mansion's look   

            And what we said of it became

            A part of what it is ... Children, 

            Still weaving budded aureoles,

            Will speak our speech and never know,

            Will say of the mansion that it seems   

            As if he that lived there left behind  

            A spirit storming in blank walls,

            A dirty house in a gutted world,

            A tatter of shadows peaked to white,   

            Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun.

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【《一张来自火山的明信片》】

威尔士人•史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

            孩子们捡起我们的骨骸

            永远无从得知这些曾经

            疾如山上飞奔的狐狸；

            秋日来临，当葡萄

            在空中弥散出更加清新的芳香

            曾经的生命，正饱尝岁寒霜苦；

            很少联想到我们的骨骸

            留下了很多东西，而保存至今的是

            事物的外表，感觉到的

            所见之物。春天云卷

            掠过格窗房顶，

            穿过门外还有大片飘逸的天空

            难言无望地哭喊，

            我们早就熟悉房子外观

            要说的话已变成

            它的组成部分…孩子们，

            还在编织嫩枝花环，

            想要谈论没有经历的往事，

            说起房子，看上去

            好像他曾在那里见过

            一具幽灵闯入空白的墙壁，

            一处虚无世界里肮脏的房子，

            一个渐成白色的碎影，

            涂抹上金色阳光。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2016：Thanksgiving Dinner(感恩节聚餐)

2012: 黄热病疫苗(Yellow Fever Vaccination)

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