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杂草的哲学
鲍海飞 2012-9-24
这是一棵小草的自述。它为自己是一棵青草,没有感到悲哀和怨恨。即使被园丁拔掉,它也无怨无悔。它知道,即使是一颗草,那也是上天让它来到这个世界上,让它有所作为,在自然界中完成它自己独特的作用和意义,为这个世界贡献它的芬芳、它的生命。这似乎和中国的哲学观“天生我材必有用”相一致。结尾处,小草大声疾呼:大自然赋予了我使命,为了这个使命,生是一棵草,死也是一棵草!
就来看看MARTHA MARTIN的这一棵青草,它是如何看待它为何而来到这个世界上,以及它对这个世界的看法。
THE WEED'S PHILOSOPHY
By MARTHA MARTIN (1913)
吾实非不幸,Nay, but tell me, am I not unlucky indeed,
生而为杂草。To arise from the earth and be only a weed ?
小小种子育,Ever since I came out of my dark little seed,
顽强成青草。I have tried to live rightly, but still am a weed.
园丁却鄙视,To be torn by the roots and destroyed this my meed.
连根都毁掉。And despised by the gardener for being a weed.
吾为何而生?Ah ! but why was I born when man longs to be freed
厄运如此遭。Of a thing so obnoxious and bad as a weed ?
肯问众芳草,Now the cause of myself and my brothers I plead,
来世为何劳?Say can any good come of my being a weed ?
万物皆有命,If a purpose divine is in all things decreed,
青草亦香飘。Then there must be some benefit from me a weed.
苦难人生世,If of evil and suffering the world still has need
征程路迢迢,In its path of development, then I a weed
自然使命赋,Must form part of that plan which in Nature I read,
生死只为草。Though I live but to die just for being a weed.
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