雙語《園丁集》 早晨我把網(wǎng)撒在海里

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IN the morning I cast my net into the sea.

I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty—some shone like a smile, some glistened like tears, and some were flushed like the cheeks of a bride.

When with the day's burden I went home, my love was sitting in the garden idly tearing the leaves of a flower.

I hesitated for a moment, and then placed at her feet all that I had dragged up, and stood silent.

She glanced at them and said, “What strange things are these? I know not of what use they are!”

I bowed my head in shame and thought, “I have not fought for these, I did not buy them in the market; they are not fit gifts for her.”

Then the whole night through I flung them one by one into the street.

In the morning travellers came; they picked them up and carried them into far countries.

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早晨我把網(wǎng)撒在海里。

我從沉黑的深淵拉出奇形奇美的東西——

有些微笑般地發(fā)亮，

有些眼淚般地閃光，

有的暈紅得像新娘的雙頰。

當(dāng)我攜帶著這一天的擔(dān)負(fù)回到家里的時候，

我愛正坐在園里悠閑地扯著花葉。

我沉吟了一會兒，

就把我撈得的一切放在她的腳前，沉默地站著。

她瞥了一眼說：“這是些什么怪東西？

我不知道這些東西有什么用處！”

我羞愧得低了頭，心想：

“我并沒有為這些東西去奮斗，

也不是從市場里買來的；

這不是一些配送給她的禮物?！?/p>

整夜的工夫我把這些東西一件一件地丟到街上。

早晨行路的人來了；

他們把這些拾起帶到遠(yuǎn)方去了。