飞鸟集二(泰戈尔)

３７

我说不出这心为什么那样默默地颓丧着。

是为了它那不曾要求，不曾知道，不曾记得的小小的需要。

I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence.

It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

３８

妇人，你在料理家务的时候，你的手足歌唱着，正如山间的溪水歌唱着在小石中流过。

Woman, when you move about in your household service your limbs sing like a hill stream among its pebbles.

３９

当太阳横过西方的海面时，对着东方留下他的最后的敬礼。

The sun goes to cross the Western sea, leaving its last salutation to the East.

４０

不要因为你自己没有胃口而去责备你的食物。

Do not blame your food because you have no appetite.

４１

群树如表示大地的愿望似的，踮起脚来向天空窥望。

The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.

４２

你微微地笑着，不同我说什么话。而我觉得，为了这个，我已等待得久了。

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this

I had been waiting long.

４３

水里的游鱼是沉默的，陆地上的兽类是喧闹的，空中的飞鸟是歌唱着的。　

但是，人类却兼有海里的沉默，地上的喧闹与空中的音乐。

The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy,

the bird in the air is singing.

But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and

the music of the air.

４４

世界在踌躇之心的琴弦上跑过去，奏出忧郁的乐声。

The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making

the music of sadness.

４５

他把他的刀剑当作他的上帝。

当他的刀剑胜利的时候他自己却失败了。

He has made his weapons his gods.

When his weapons win he is defeated himself.

４６

神从创造中找到他自己。

God finds himself by creating.

４７

阴影戴上她的面幕，秘密地，温顺地，用她的沉默的爱的脚步，跟在“光”后边。

Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness,

with her silent steps of love.

４８

群星不怕显得象萤火那样。

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

４９

谢谢神，我不是一个权力的轮子，而是被压在这轮子下的活人之一。

I thank thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with

the living creatures that are crushed by it.

５０

心是尖锐的，不是宽博的，它执着在每一点上，却并不活动。

The mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.

５１

你的偶像委散在尘土中了，这可证明神的尘土比你的偶像还伟大。

You idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

５２

人不能在他的历史中表现出他自己，他在历史中奋斗着露出头角。

Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.

５３

玻璃灯因为瓦灯叫它做表兄而责备瓦灯。但明月出来时，玻璃

灯却温和地微笑着，叫明月为－－－“我亲爱的，亲爱的姐姐。”

While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for call---My dear, dear sister.

５４

我们如海鸥之与波涛相遇似地，遇见了，走近了。海鸥飞去，波涛滚滚地流开，我们也分别了。

Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.

The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.