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朗费罗诗:建设者(武夷山译)

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朗费罗诗:建设者(武夷山译)

 

The Builders
from The Seaside and the Fireside

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)


All are architects of Fate,
   Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
   Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Nothing useless is, or low;
   Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
   Strengthens and supports the rest.

For the structure that we raise,
   Time is with materials filled;
Our to-days and yesterdays
   Are the blocks with which we build.

Truly shape and fashion these;
   Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
   Such things will remain unseen.

In the elder days of Art,
   Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
   For the Gods see everywhere.

Let us do our work as well,
   Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house, where Gods may dwell,
   Beautiful, entire, and clean.

Else our lives are incomplete,
   Standing in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
   Stumble as they seek to climb.

Build to-day, then, strong and sure,
   With a firm and ample base;
And ascending and secure
   Shall to-morrow find its place.

Thus alone can we attain
   To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain,
   And one boundless reach of sky.

 

建设者

(武夷山200843译于出差途中,48修改)

 

所有人都是命运的建筑师,

在时间之墙内工作奔忙。

有些人取得丰功伟绩,

有些人只能做些有韵味的装潢。

 

没有任何事物低贱、无用,

适得其所便是最佳。

看起来一无用处的东西,

却巩固和支撑着大厦。

 

我们努力树起的结构,

时间用材料将其充填。

我们的今天与明天,

便是我们用以建房的构件。

 

一定要使这些构件组合到位,

构件之间要严丝合缝。

不要以为无人监工,

出了问题就可以逃遁。

 

在那往昔的艺术时代,

工匠们做事极其用心、灵巧,

每一微小、内嵌的部件都精雕细琢,

因为上帝明察秋毫。

 

让我们把自己的事情做好,

无论别人是否看得见。

上帝可能要居住的屋宇,

要建得完整、清洁、美艳。

 

否则,当我们站在时间之墙里面,

就会发现生活不那么完好。

既然楼梯破旧晃摇,

一脚踩上就要摔倒。

 

因此,今天就要把它建得结结实实,

打下的基础不摇不晃。

那么明天就会发现,

一寸寸长高的建筑固若金汤。

 

于是,我们终能独自登临

那些高耸的楼塔。

在那高处,一望无际的平原尽收眼下,

还有那寥远弗届的天涯。

 

 

 



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