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【A Rabbit as the King of Ghosts (1940)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The difficulty to think at the end of day, 

        When the shapeless shadow covers the sun 

        And nothing is left except light on your fur? 

        There was the cat slopping its milk all day, 

        Fat cat, red tongue, green mind, white milk 

        And August the most peaceful month. 

        To be, in the grass, in the peacefullest time, 

        Without that monument of cat, 

        The cat forgotten in the moon; 

        And to feel that the light is a rabbit-light, 

        In which everything is meant for you 

        And nothing need be explained; 

        Then there is nothing to think of. It comes of itself; 

        And east rushes west and west rushes down, 

        No matter. The grass is full 

        And full of yourself. The trees around are for you, 

        The whole of the wideness of night is for you, 

        A self that touches all edges, 

        You become a self that fills the four corners of night. 

        The red cat hides away in the fur-light 

        And there you are humped high, humped up, 

        You are humped higher and higher, black as stone? 

        You sit with your head like a carving in space 

         And the little green cat is a bug in the grass.

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【《幽灵兔王》(1940)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            最终百思不得其解，

            当无形的影子遮住太阳

            除了你毛皮上的亮光还有什么？

            有只猫整天砸吧着奶，

            福态相、红舌头、绿脑袋、奶白色

            与八月最祥和的月份。

            要去，草丛中，最祥和的时光里，

            没有猫的纪念碑，

            那只被遗忘在月光中的猫；

            要感受那亮是兔之光，

            而一切全都为了你

            无需任何解释；

            因此勿用多想。它会自行出现；

            从东向西移动再从西朝下俯冲，

            不在话下。芳草丰茂

            任你随心所欲。周围的树林全都属于你，

            整个广袤的黑夜全都属于你，

            一个八面玲珑的化身，

            你变成黑夜纵横驰骋的化身。

            红猫躲开毛皮亮光

            就在那里你深弯腰背，隆起身子，

            你弓得越来越高，黑得如同磐石？

            你像尊悬空的头部雕塑坐着

            绿猫咪只是草丛中的小虫子。

【注】从春节到元宵节，15天的过年于今天才算结束。虽说我在美国生活的时间比在国内还要长，但中华文化的元素早已根植心灵深处，因此永远忘不掉自己民族的节日。“万物迎春送残腊，一年结局在今宵”(宋代·戴复古《除夜》)，抓住欢乐时刻是对岁月最大的尊重。

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