出自《先知 The Prophet 》
譯者:雲天
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It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
Yet I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.
今天,我拋開的不是一件衣裳,
而是親手撕開的一塊皮膚。
它不是我留在身後的一縷思緒,
而是一顆飢渴醸成的甜蜜的心。
可是我卻不能再耽擱了。
呼喚一切的大海正向我召喚,
我必須登船。
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that give it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
聲音無法承載給它羽翼的唇舌。
它必須獨自找尋天空。
飛鷹應離開巢窩,
獨自掠過太陽。
Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.
Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward,
Then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers.
我就緒待發,
我期盼的船帆已張滿,
殷切期待海風到來。
只要再吸一口寂靜的空氣,
只要再留戀地回望一眼,
我將站到你們當中,
成為水手中的一員。
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
愛從來不知道它有多麼深,
直到即將分離的那個時刻。
of what can I speak save of that which is even now moving your souls?
除了此刻激蕩你們靈魂的事物,
我還能說什麼呢?