2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day

【Sunday Morning·VI (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Is there no change of death in paradise?

        Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs

        Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,

        Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,

        With rivers like our own that seek for seas

        They never find, the same receding shores

        That never touch with inarticulate pang?

        Why set the pear upon those river-banks

        Or spice the shores with odors of the plum?

        Alas, that they should wear our colors there,

        The silken weavings of our afternoons,

        And pick the strings of our insipid lutes!

        Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,

        Within whose burning bosom we devise

        Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

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【《星期天早晨·之六》(1923)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            难道天堂里万物无生无灭？

            莫非成熟的果实从不坠落？否则树枝

            总是沉甸甸地悬挂在那完美的苍穹中，

            亘古未变，而又酷似我们迭兴的尘世，

            宛若我们的河流奔注大海

            却永远无法到达，仿佛渐远的两岸

            怎么说都难以汇合？

            何必沿岸再献上梨儿

            只不过让李子香飘满地？

            哎呀，在那里它们该穿我们的衣裳，

            我们午后的丝绸绫罗，

            并弹奏我们乏味的琴弦！

            死亡是美丽之母，神秘莫测，

            我们终将归返她那爱心洋溢的怀抱犹如

            慈母书夜无眠的等待。

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