2023-10-01 Chinese Natl Day

【Two Letters—A Letter To (1954)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        She wanted a holiday

        With someone to speak her dulcied native tongue,

        In the shadows of a wood…

        Shadows, woods…and the two of them in speech,

        In a secrecy of words

        Opened out within a secrecy of place,

        Not having to do with love.

        A land would hold her in its arms that day

        Or something much like a land.

        The circle would no longer be broken but closed.

        The miles of distance away

        From everything would end. It would all meet.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《兩封信·致函》(1954)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            她要度假

            想跟操持鄉音者同行，

            樹陰下……

            暗影、林地……還有他倆的對話，

            悄聲私語

            在隱秘的角落暢敘，

            與愛情無關。

            那天大地把她摟在懷裡 

            又或是擁抱大地。

            輪迴不止而循環無端。

            縱然遠隔千里

            終有盡頭。世間一切都是遇見。

【注】今天國慶節的晚上，大費城地區美洲華人藥學會(American Chinese Pharmaceutical Association in Philadelphia, ACP)聯手華夏中文學校大費城分校(Huaxia Chinese School at Great Valley)聯合舉辦了一場“大費城地區中秋聯歡晚會”，久違了七載的文藝盛典重又回到大眾視野，濃郁的民族情結把久居大費城地區的海外華人再度凝聚起來，共同慶祝這個薪火相傳一脈相承的中華節日。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2017: Poem─Snow Falls(詩歌─下雪)

2013: 閱讀奧林匹克

Crosslinks(相關博文):

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