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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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【《幽靈兔王》(1940)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            最終百思不得其解，

            當無形的影子遮住太陽

            除了你毛皮上的亮光還有什麼？

            有隻貓整天砸吧着奶，

            福態相、紅舌頭、綠腦袋、奶白色

            與八月最祥和的月份。

            要去，草叢中，最祥和的時光里，

            沒有貓的紀念碑，

            那隻被遺忘在月光中的貓；

            要感受那亮是兔之光，

            而一切全都為了你

            無需任何解釋；

            因此勿用多想。它會自行出現；

            從東向西移動再從西朝下俯衝，

            不在話下。芳草豐茂

            任你隨心所欲。周圍的樹林全都屬於你，

            整個廣袤的黑夜全都屬於你，

            一個八面玲瓏的化身，

            你變成黑夜縱橫馳騁的化身。

            紅貓躲開毛皮亮光

            就在那裡你深彎腰背，隆起身子，

            你弓得越來越高，黑得如同磐石？

            你像尊懸空的頭部雕塑坐着

            綠貓咪只是草叢中的小蟲子。

【注】從春節到元宵節，15天的過年於今天才算結束。雖說我在美國生活的時間比在國內還要長，但中華文化的元素早已根植心靈深處，因此永遠忘不掉自己民族的節日。“萬物迎春送殘臘，一年結局在今宵”(宋代·戴復古《除夜》)，抓住歡樂時刻是對歲月最大的尊重。

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