《斯德哥尔摩》

文/和平岛

波罗的海的海王

珍藏三万颗宝石

他挑选十四颗最大最昂贵

星星一样闪耀的

献给钟爱的梅拉尔湖女王

美丽的女王

用它们镶嵌王冠

给爱情的结晶

她膝上宝贝得不行的

斯德哥尔摩王子

加冕——

有关斯德哥尔摩城传说

最有力的证据

来自同位素的地质年龄测定

T-Bana 的隧道

通向18亿年前的斯德哥尔摩花岗岩

金厅，千万枚马赛克

就是其中开采出来的原料

被来自意大利的工匠

一炉炉冶炼

敲打成

黄金与彩色玻璃碎片

更有八百万块红砖

切割的无数石板

都成为宫殿、城堡、教堂

大街、小弄

建筑材料

富丽堂皇的斯德哥尔摩

是女王和海王的呵护下

永不沉没的

北方威尼斯

恒星之下

斯堪的纳维亚的王冠

发射着绚烂的极光

诺贝尔奖的奖金

只是宝藏的一小部分

Stockholm

By He Ping Dao (和平岛)

The King of the Baltic Sea

Treasured thirty thousand gemstones.

He chose the fourteen largest and most precious,

Shining like celestial bodies,

As a gift for his beloved Queen of Lake Mälaren.

The radiant Queen

Set them into a crown

To coronate the fruit of their love,

The prince held so dearly upon her knee:

Stockholm.

————The most compelling evidence

Of this legendary city’s birth

Comes from the isotopic dating of the earth.

The tunnels of the T-Bana

Lead back to the Stockholm Granite, eighteen billion years old.

Within the Golden Hall, ten million mosaics

Are the raw materials exhumed from those depths,

Smelted furnace by furnace by Italian masters,

Hammered into

Fragments of gold and colored glass.

Then there are the eight million red bricks,

And the countless slabs of hand-cut stone,

The very flesh and bone

Of palaces, castles, cathedrals,

 streets and alleys.

A resplendent Stockholm,

Under the mantle of the King and Queen,

An unsinkable

Venice of the North.

Beneath the ancient stars,

The crown of Scandinavia

Radiates the splendor of the Aurora.

And the Nobel Prize money?

It is but a mere fraction of the treasure.