大地藉助於芳草萋萋，顯示它自己的殷勤好客｜泰戈爾

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

夏天的離群飄泊的飛鳥，飛到我的窗前鳴囀歌唱，一會兒又飛走了。

而秋天的黃葉無歌可唱，飄飄零零，嘆息一聲，落在窗前了。

O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.

世界上的一群小小飄泊者啊，在我的文字里留下你們的足印吧。

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

世界面對它的情人，脫下了它廣大的面具。

世界變小了，小得像一支歌，像永恆的一吻。

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

大地的淚水，使她的微笑永不凋謝地開花。

Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

她那有所思慕的臉，猶如夜間的雨，縈迴在我的夢境里。

Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.

我的心，靜聽世界的低聲細語吧，它以此向你求愛。

My wishes are fools, they shout across thy songs, my Master.

Let me but listen.

我的主啊，我的願望都是傻裡傻氣的傢伙，他們大叫大鬧著越過你的歌聲。

讓我只是側耳靜聽。

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

你微笑，對我默默無言，可我覺得，我為此情此景，已經等待很長久了。

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

我的白晝已經完了，我像是一隻拖到了海灘上的小船，靜聽著黃昏漲潮的舞樂。

Chastity is a wealth that comes from abundance of love.

貞操是產生於愛情充沛的一種財富。

The great earth makes herself hospitable with the help of the grass.

大地藉助於芳草萋萋，顯示它自己的殷勤好客。

Power said to the world,

「You are mine.」

The world kept it prisoner on her throne.

Love said to the world,

「I am thine.」

The world gave it the freedom of her house.

權力對世界說道：「你是屬於我的。」

世界把權力囚禁在她的御座下。

愛對世界說道：「我是屬於你的。」

世界給愛以出入她宮室的自由。

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the autumn seeking its former nest.

遙遠的夏季的音樂，餘音繚繞著秋季，在尋訪它的舊巢。

The sun has his simple robe of light. The clouds are decked with gorgeousness.

太陽穿樸素的光明之袍。彩雲衣飾華麗。

Dream is a wife who must talk,

Sleep is a husband who silently suffers.

夢是個非說話不可的妻子。

睡眠是個默默容忍的丈夫。

The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, 「I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth.」

黑夜親吻逐漸逝去的白晝，在他耳邊低聲說道：「我是死亡，是你的母親，我要給予你新生。」

Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

時間是變化的財富，然而時鐘拙劣的模仿，卻只有變化而毫無財富。

My thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings with the touch of this sunlight; my life is glad to be floating with all things into the blue of space, into the dark of time.

我的思想隨著閃爍的綠葉而閃爍，我的心隨著陽光的愛撫而歌唱，我的生命樂於隨同萬物浮游於空間的蔚藍里，時間的墨黑里。

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

杯中的水閃閃生光，海里的水是黑沉沉的。

小道理可用文字說清楚；大道理卻只有偉大的沉默。

The evening sky to me is like a window, and a lighted lamp, and a waiting behind it.

在我看來，黃昏的天空，好比一扇窗子，一盞點亮的燈，燈下的一次等待。

The burning log bursts in flame and cries, 「This is my flower, my death.」

燃燒著的原木，爆發出火焰，大聲叫道：「這是我的花朵，我的死亡。」

《心笛神韻：泰戈爾詩集》

[印度] 泰戈爾 著

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由十個單集組成，是詩人從其五十多種孟加拉文詩集中優中選優，然後親自翻譯成英文。

《吉檀迦利》《園丁集》《新月集》《采國集》《飛鳥集》《情人的禮物》《度》《遐想集》《流螢集》《集外集》，這些作品早已為中外詩歌愛好者，文學評論家，乃至普通讀者所熟悉與珍愛。十多年前，吳岩先生將其全部翻譯成優美的中文，並集結成《心笛神韻》一書出版。

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