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.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《两封信·致函》(1954)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            她要度假

            想跟操持乡音者同行，

            树阴下……

            暗影、林地……还有他俩的对话，

            悄声私语

            在隐秘的角落畅叙，

            与爱情无关。

            那天大地把她搂在怀里 

            又或是拥抱大地。

            轮回不止而循环无端。

            纵然远隔千里

            终有尽头。世间一切都是遇见。

【注】今天国庆节的晚上，大费城地区美洲华人药学会(American Chinese Pharmaceutical Association in Philadelphia, ACP)联手华夏中文学校大费城分校(Huaxia Chinese School at Great Valley)联合举办了一场“大费城地区中秋联欢晚会”，久违了七载的文艺盛典重又回到大众视野，浓郁的民族情结把久居大费城地区的海外华人再度凝聚起来，共同庆祝这个薪火相传一脉相承的中华节日。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2017: Poem─Snow Falls(诗歌─下雪)

2013: 阅读奥林匹克

Crosslinks(相关博文):

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万花筒(Kaleidoscope)