唐代 骆宾王 Luo Binwang  唐代   (640~684)
A Political Prisoner Listening to a Cicada
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A Political Prisoner Listening to a Cicada
在狱咏蝉·并序

   Luo Binwang

While the year sinks westward, I hear a cicada
Bid me to be resolute here in my cell,
Yet it needed the song of those black wings
To break a white-haired prisoner's heart....
His flight is heavy through the fog,
His pure voice drowns in the windy world.
Who knows if he be singing still? - -
Who listens any more to me?


2) On Hearing Cicadas in Prison
Tr. Liu Yiqing


The year is sinking west, cicadas sing,
Their songs stir up the prisoner's grief.
I cannot bear the sight of their dark wing,
Their hymn to innocence gives me no relief.


Wings heavy with dew, hard becomes the flight,
Drowned in strong wind, their voice cannot be heard.
None would believe their songs are pure and bright,
Who could express my feeling deep in word?


French version:
En prison,
le poète entend chanter la cigale
La voix de la cigale a résonné, du c?té de la route occidentale;
Elle jette dans une rêverie profonde l'h?te qui porte un bonnet du midi.


Comment supporterais-je patiemment la vue de ce frêle insecte,
Qui vient, tout près de ma tête blanche, répéter son chant douloureux!


La rosée, trop lourde pour ses ailes, appesantit sa marche, et l'empêche de prendre son vol;
Le vent, qui souffle avec violence, emporte ses cris étouffés.


Les hommes ne veulent pas croire à ce qu'il y a de pur et d'élevé (dans le secret de son existence).
Puis-je espérer qu'il s'en trouve un, pour faire conna?tre à tous ce que renferme mon c?ur?

    Translator: Witter Bynner
  

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