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Come let us watch the sun go down
and walk in twilight through the orchard's green.
Does it not seem as if we had for long
collected, saved and harbored within us
old memories? To find releases and seek
new hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys,
mingled with darkness coming from within,
as we randomly voice our thoughts aloud
wandering beneath these harvest-laden trees
reminiscent of Durer woodcuts, branches
which, bent under the fully ripened fruit,
wait patiently, trying to outlast, to
serve another season's hundred days of toil,
straining, uncomplaining, by not breaking
but succeeding, even though the burden
should at times seem almost past endurance.
Not to falter! Not to be found wanting!
Thus must it be, when willingly you strive
throughout a long and uncomplaining life,
committed to one goal: to give yourself!
And silently to grow and to bear fruit.
The Apple Orchard
Come just after the sun has gone down, watch
This deepening of green in the evening sward:
Is it not as if we’d long since garnered
And stored within ourselves a something which
From feeling and from feeling recollected,
From new hope and half-forgotten joys
And from an inner dark infused with these,
Issues in thoughts as ripe as windfalls scattered
Here under trees like trees in a Dürer woodcut –
Pendent, pruned, the husbandry of years
Gravid in them until the fruit appears –
Ready to serve, replete with patience, rooted
In the knowledge that no matter how above
Measure or expectation, all must be
Harvested and yielded, when a long life willingly
Cleaves to what’s willed and grows in mute
resolve.
translated by Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013 from District and Circl
蘋果園
來吧 讓我們一起去看日落
漫步於蘋果園深沉下來的綠色之中 在朦朧的暮色裏
這是不是就像那些 那些我們長期以來
收集起來的 保存下來的 寄居於我們心中的
遙遠的記憶? 那些 尋找著釋放的缺口 孕育著
嶄新的希望 記起著被忘掉了一半的喜悅
跟內部的黯淡糾纏在一起的
那些我們曾經思想過的問題
瓜熟蒂落隨風而逝 如同
枝頭被風吹掉了的蘋果
徘徊於滿載收獲的樹木之下
那些讓人想起了杜拉的木刻作品的樹們 枝條
因為熟透了的果實而彎曲下垂
它們會再一次地耐心等待 持久忍耐
完成下一個季節的百日勞作
不懈的努力 不去抱怨 沒有突破 隻有
成功向前,當然有的時候 負載
好像遠遠超過了極限…
要堅持住不能泄氣啊 所有的這一切都在孕育著 那根植於其中的
果實
直到有一天它在枝頭重現
那麽一定是這樣的, 如果你願意
去努力承受這個漫長而辛勞的過程 無怨無悔無求
向著一個目標,奉獻你自己
那麽就一定會有收獲和產出
在悄無聲息的生長和孕育裏 直到枝頭果實再現
遊士也新年好!
祝新的一年健康快樂。
請保暖,週日愉快.
新年愉快!
聖誕快樂!
有空來我家喝茶,我有禮物送給你。
祝聖誕快樂!
謝謝, 也祝你節日快樂。
祝願小C回國度假愉快!節日快樂!
多倫多也放了,我最近太忙, 沒時間去看。
小C翻譯得好,讚!
今年冬天冷, 希望我剛剛種下的五色梨樹能安穩過冬。
祝節日快樂。
謝謝子喬介紹, 你讀書很多啊。
祝節日快樂。
節日快樂!