2024-02-13 Lunar Goat Bliss Day

【On the Manner of Addressing Clouds (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,

        Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,

        Eliciting the still sustaining pomps

        Of speech which are like music so profound

        They seem an exaltation without sound.

        Funest philosophers and ponderers,

        Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

        So speech of your processionals returns

        In the casual evocations of your tread

        Across the stale, mysterious seasons. These

        Are the music of meet resignation; these

        The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you

        To magnify, if in that drifting waste

        You are to be accompanied by more

        Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.

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【《論雲朵的禮儀》(1921)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            穿着金色長袍的憂鬱語法學家，

            溫順地守着凡人的集合，

            引發仍在持續的盛觀

            道白就像音樂一般深沉 

            好不寂靜歡喜。

            悲傷的哲學家和思考者，

            用雲朵的表達方式召喚。

            於是，你們遊行聖歌的道白出現 

            在不經意召喚的腳步聲中 

            跨越陳舊、神秘的季節。這些

            逆來順受的音樂；這些

            回應作答、仍在持續的盛觀供你

            讚美，在那漂泊的荒原中

            伴隨你的遠非

            太陽和月亮無聲無息的輝煌。

【注】今天賓州下了第三場大雪，正值農曆正月除四三羊(陽)開泰，來自老祖宗的吉祥話：瑞雪兆豐年，風雨送春歸。

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