第三冊第1篇：《人生頌》

1 A Psalm of Life 《人生頌》

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗費羅

What the Heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

"Life is but an empty dream! "

for the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

不要在哀傷的詩句里告訴我：

“人生不過是一場幻夢!”

靈魂睡著了，就等于死了，

事物的真相與外表不同。

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

"Dust thou art, to dust returnest, "

Was not spoken of the soul.

人生是真切的!人生是實在的!

它的歸宿絕不是荒墳;

“你本是塵土，必歸于塵土，

這是指軀殼，不是指靈魂。

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

我們命定的目標和道路

不是享樂，也不是受苦;

而是行動，在每個明天

都超越今天，跨出新步。

Art is long , and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

智藝無窮，時光飛逝;

這顆心，縱然勇敢堅強，

也只如鼙鼓，悶聲擂動著，

一下又一下，向墳地送喪。

In the world's broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

世界是一片遼闊的戰(zhàn)場，

人生是到處扎寨安營;

莫學(xué)那聽人驅(qū)策的啞畜，

做一個威武善戰(zhàn)的英雄!

Trust no Future,howe'er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, -act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o'erhead!

別指靠將來，不管它多可愛!

把已逝的過去永久掩埋!

行動吧──趁著活生生的現(xiàn)在!

胸中有赤心，頭上有真宰!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And , departing , leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

偉人的生平啟示我們：

我們能夠生活得高尚，

而當告別人世的時候，

留下腳印在時間的沙上。

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o'er life's solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother ,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

也許我們有一個弟兄

航行在莊嚴的人生大海，

遇險沉了船，絕望的時刻，

會看到這腳印而振作起來。

Let us , then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labour and to wait.

那么，讓我們起來干吧，

對任何命運要敢于擔載;

不斷地進取，不斷地追求，

要善于勞動，善于等待。