<p class="ql-block">812</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">A Light exists in Spring</p><p class="ql-block">Not present on the Year</p><p class="ql-block">At any other period –</p><p class="ql-block">When March is scarcely here</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">A Color stands abroad</p><p class="ql-block">On Solitary Fields</p><p class="ql-block">That Science cannot overtake</p><p class="ql-block">But Human Nature feels.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">It waits upon the Lawn,</p><p class="ql-block">It shows the furthest Tree</p><p class="ql-block">Upon the furthest Slope you know</p><p class="ql-block">It almost speaks to you.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Then as Horizons step</p><p class="ql-block">Or Noons report away</p><p class="ql-block">Without the Formula of sound</p><p class="ql-block">It passes and we stay –</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">A quality of loss</p><p class="ql-block">Affecting our Content</p><p class="ql-block">As Trade had suddenly encroached</p><p class="ql-block">Upon a Sacrament.</p><p class="ql-block">———</p><p class="ql-block">春光里有一种光，</p><p class="ql-block">一年之中，</p><p class="ql-block">别的时节都不出现——</p><p class="ql-block">就在三月刚来临之际。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">旷野之上，漾着一种色彩，</p><p class="ql-block">科学无从捕捉，</p><p class="ql-block">唯有人心能够感知。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">它静候在草坪之上，</p><p class="ql-block">点亮远方的树木，</p><p class="ql-block">在你熟知最远的那道山坡，</p><p class="ql-block">它几乎要对你开口言语。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">而后，随着天际推移，</p><p class="ql-block">正午时光悄然消逝，</p><p class="ql-block">没有一丝声响，</p><p class="ql-block">它悄然离去，唯有我们还留在原地——</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">心头生出一种失落，</p><p class="ql-block">搅扰内心的安宁，</p><p class="ql-block">好似俗世的交易，</p><p class="ql-block">骤然冒犯了一场神圣的仪式。</p> <p class="ql-block">嘉木试译《三月的仪式》</p> <p class="ql-block">814</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">One Day is there of the Series</p><p class="ql-block">Termed Thanksgiving Day.</p><p class="ql-block">Celebrated part at Table</p><p class="ql-block">Part in Memory.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Neither Patriarch nor Pussy</p><p class="ql-block">I dissect the Play</p><p class="ql-block">Seems it to my Hooded thinking</p><p class="ql-block">Reflex Holiday.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Had there been no sharp Subtraction</p><p class="ql-block">From the early Sum –</p><p class="ql-block">Not an Acre or a Caption</p><p class="ql-block">Where was once a Room –</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Not a Mention, whose small Pebble</p><p class="ql-block">Wrinkled any Sea,</p><p class="ql-block">Unto Such, were such Assembly</p><p class="ql-block">’Twere Thanksgiving Day.</p><p class="ql-block">———</p><p class="ql-block">岁月流转中有这么一天，</p><p class="ql-block">人们叫它感恩节。</p><p class="ql-block">一部分欢庆摆在餐桌之上，</p><p class="ql-block">一部分留存回忆中。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">无论耄耋还是襁褓，</p><p class="ql-block">我细细剖析这场人间盛事。</p><p class="ql-block">在我幽闭沉敛的思索看来，</p><p class="ql-block">这不过是追忆式的节日。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">倘若最初完整的幸福总和，</p><p class="ql-block">不曾遭遇残酷的削减——</p><p class="ql-block">曾经满是欢颜的屋舍，</p><p class="ql-block">没有化作荒芜土地，也没有只剩文字纪念——</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">倘若往事的点滴，</p><p class="ql-block">不曾如小石投海，搅起海面万般波澜，</p><p class="ql-block">唯有那样的人们，相聚一堂，</p><p class="ql-block">方才称得上真正的感恩节。</p> <p class="ql-block">嘉木试译《感恩之日》</p> <p class="ql-block">822</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">This Consciousness that is aware</p><p class="ql-block">Of Neighbors and the Sun</p><p class="ql-block">Will be the one aware of Death</p><p class="ql-block">And that itself alone</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Is traversing the interval</p><p class="ql-block">Experience between</p><p class="ql-block">And most profound experiment</p><p class="ql-block">Appointed unto Men –</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">How adequate unto itself</p><p class="ql-block">Its properties shall be</p><p class="ql-block">Itself unto itself and none</p><p class="ql-block">Shall make discovery.</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">Adventure most unto itself</p><p class="ql-block">The Soul condemned to be –</p><p class="ql-block">Attended by a single Hound</p><p class="ql-block">Its own identity.</p><p class="ql-block">———</p><p class="ql-block">这份觉知</p><p class="ql-block">能觉察人世邻里、旭日天光，</p><p class="ql-block">亦将洞悉死亡那沉甸甸的真相。</p><p class="ql-block">唯有它孤身独往，</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">穿梭于生死相隔的旷远时光，</p><p class="ql-block">遍历此间种种世事过往，</p><p class="ql-block">这是世人注定承受，</p><p class="ql-block">最深邃的一场试炼场。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">意识本就可以自我成全，</p><p class="ql-block">秉有它与生俱来的万般特质。</p><p class="ql-block">只向自身显露真颜，</p><p class="ql-block">旁人无从窥探内里的秘密。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">灵魂奔赴一场独属于自己的闯荡，</p><p class="ql-block">生就注定这般孤绝境况——</p><p class="ql-block">仅有一头猎犬寸步相随，</p><p class="ql-block">那便是它与生俱来的本相。</p> <p class="ql-block">嘉木试译《灵魂之旅》</p>