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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【《论云朵的礼仪》(1921)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            穿着金色长袍的忧郁语法学家，

            温顺地守着凡人的集合，

            引发仍在持续的盛观

            道白就像音乐一般深沉 

            好不寂静欢喜。

            悲伤的哲学家和思考者，

            用云朵的表达方式召唤。

            于是，你们游行圣歌的道白出现 

            在不经意召唤的脚步声中 

            跨越陈旧、神秘的季节。这些

            逆来顺受的音乐；这些

            回应作答、仍在持续的盛观供你

            赞美，在那漂泊的荒原中

            伴随你的远非

            太阳和月亮无声无息的辉煌。

【注】今天宾州下了第三场大雪，正值农历正月除四三羊(阳)开泰，来自老祖宗的吉祥话：瑞雪兆丰年，风雨送春归。

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