outland poetry
dumb
沉默
Edgar Lee Masters
I have experience over the stars and the sea of silence,
And urban silence, pause the sound when the city,
And the silence between the men and girls,
And a silent, only the language of music can find it.
And the silence of the forest, blowing in the spring before
And the patient's silence,
When they visit the tired head indoors.
So I asked: For the far-reaching of all,
Language What is the use?
A number of the beast is only moaning sound,
When the death Juequ its cub.
Also before we worry about in the real natural silent -
We could not speak.
A curious boy asks a
Veteran sitting in front of the grocery store,
"Is how you lose a leg?"
Initiated even startled to veterans,
Or else he's thinking and flies away,
Because he can not focus on the cover of iron Wolfsburg.
Finally, he thought back humor,
He replied: "eat a bear."
Boy wonder, and veterans
Silence, weak, the re-experience
Those flash gun, guns rang,
Sharp hoarseness killed cried,
While he lie down on the ground,
Then a surgeon, is the scalpel,
Is the long days lying in bed.
If he can describe it all,
He will be an artist.
But if he is an artist, will have a deeper
And he could not describe the trauma.
Some silence is due to the extreme hate,
Some silence is due to the extreme of love,
Silence is as deep and some peace of mind,
Some silence is due to the friendship turned into with the unpleasant,
Some silence is due to the spirit of struggle,
Endured sharp pain in your soul come from the struggle,
Bring some mirage, but not in
The field of higher raw state.
Some silence is part of God, of God and each other without saying that the analogy
Some silence is due to failure.
Some silence is due to be punished in vain;
Some are dying in silence, his hands
You will suddenly grasped.
The father and son have their silence
When the father is not able to explain his life,
Therefore, even if he would be misunderstood.
Some silence in between husband and wife since.
Some people who have failed are silent;
Silence enveloped the huge
Sink and yield of the leaders of the country.
Lincoln silent,
Think of him when the poor youth.
Napoleon was silent,
In the Battle of Waterloo after.
Joan of Arc was silent
On the flame, said: "universal praise of Jesus" -
Expressed in two words all sorrow, all hope.
The silent era,
Full of wisdom and can not say too much
To those who have not experienced the magnificent life people
To understand the language.
The dead have their silence.
If you can not tell us the living
Many profound personal experience,
How can you blame those who died almost
Tell you not to die?
Their silence will be interpreted,
When we approached them.
Translator: 余光中
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