各位詩友，久違了，祝大家春節快樂！

傅正明

  吉羅德·曼利·霍普金斯（1844 ˉ1889），英國詩人

春天

G M. 霍普金斯作 傅正明譯

春天是最美的季節 －－

當一年一度鶯飛草長，綠遍原野，

一個個鳥蛋像小小天國，

鶇鳥掠過空谷傳響的樹叢，輕捷

如閃電驚起我們聆聽，聲聲入耳；

那明媚的梨樹綻開花蕾新櫱，

由遠而近刷出藍天淡雲，驀然間

一片濃艷，可愛的羊羔在草地跳躍！

萬物的瓊漿和愉悅究竟是什厶？

是伊甸園肇始的大地的甜美音樂。

－－ 在它變膩之前，盡情地唱吧跳吧，

在混濁發酸之前，基督我主，請赦免罪孽，

那無辜的心靈和男歡女笑的五月節，

啊，童真的孩子，你們的選擇值得獎掖。

           1918年

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (1844 ˉ1889), English poet

Spring

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring ˉ          

   When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;          

   Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush          

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring          

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; 

   The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush          

   The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush          

With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.          

What is all this juice and all this joy?          

   A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning 

In Eden garden. ˉ Have, get, before it cloy,          

   Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,          

Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,          

   Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.