【單飛朗誦參加活動】惠特曼的自我之歌 1

Song of Myself

by Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.

Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.

 

我讚美我自己，歌唱我自己， 
我承擔的你也將承擔， 
因為屬於我的每一個原子也同樣屬於你。 
我閑步，還邀請了我的靈魂， 
我俯身悠然觀察著一片夏日的草葉。 
我的舌，我血液的每個原子，是在這片土壤、這個空氣裏形成的， 
是這裏的父母生下的，父母的父母也是在這裏生下的，他們的父母也一樣， 
我，現在三十七歲，一生下身體就十分健康， 
希望永遠如此，直到死去。 
信條和學派暫時不論， 
且後退一步，明了它們當前的情況已足，但也決不是忘記， 
不論我從善從惡，我允許隨意發表意見， 
順乎自然，保持原始的活力。