The world was warm and white when I was born: Beyond the windowpane the world was white, A glaring whiteness in a leaded frame, Yet warm as in the hearth and heart of light.
当我呱呱坠地 世界温暖而洁白
从铅框的窗户外望 炫目一片琼瑶 而煊暖如灯
Although the whiteness was almond and was bone In midnight’s still paralysis, nevertheless The world was warm and hope was infinite All things would come, fulfilled, all things would be known All things would be enjoyed, fulfilled, and come to be my own.
环宇温暖 希望无限 尽管午夜的僵死苍白如杏 惨白如骨
一切都将降临 都将实现 一切谜底都将揭晓
一切都将被享受 被呈现 一一化为我有
(下面的实在不好翻译了,先留半边吧)
How like a summer the years of youth have passed! —How like the summer of 1914, in all truth!— Patience, my soul, the truth is never known Until the future has become the past
And then, only, when the love of truth at last Becomes the truth of love, when both are one, Then, then, then, Eden becomes Utopia and is surpassed: For then the dream of knowledge and knowledge knows Motive and joy at once wherever it goes.
诸位是否还记得我在这里贴过的基督教歌曲《破晓》?现在把歌词贴出来,看其中的"Morning has broken, like the first morning"和"Praise with elation, praise every morning/God's recreation of the new day",和《每一次》的歌词是否有暗合之处?可巧网上有文章说,《每一次》在大陆的走红说明了中国人潜在的佛性,然而,佛性和神性是不是在此相通?
Morning Has Broken
As sung by Cat Stevens
lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon
Morning has broken, like the first morning Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the world
Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall, on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung in completeness where his feet pass
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning Born of the one light, Eden saw play Praise with elation, praise every morning God's recreation of the new day
Young Simba: Dad? Mufasa: Hmm? Young Simba: We're pals, right? Mufasa: Right. Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right? Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars, the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us. Young Simba: Really? Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you and so will I.
他们很多是全时工作的中低收入阶层,美国所谓的“工作穷”the working poor,星条旗下最辛苦劳累的群体。我知道,整个学期我用数学公式、阅读材料和应用软件轰炸他们,对这些离开学校多年的学生是一个非常大的挑战。我曾怀疑过这些学生会不会恨我这个跟在职学生较真儿的教员,也想过自己是不是不该接这个晚间班。而如今这一幕让我觉得,三个月来的辛苦是值得的。
When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning: silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!