首页 泰戈尔诗集:世界上最遥远的距离(英汉对照)

第16章 新月集 (9)

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I know you are thinking, sitting all by yourself, that your boy must be dead by this time.

But I come to you all stained with blood, and say,

“Mother, the fight is over now.”

您蹲在轿子里,反复不断地祷告着神的名字。

轿夫们吓得瑟瑟发抖,在荆棘丛中躲藏起来。

我向您喊着:“不要害怕,妈妈,有我在。”

他们手执长棒,头发凌乱,越来越近了。

我大喊:“小心些!你们这些坏蛋!再往前一步,你们就等死吧。”

他们又发出可怕的号叫,并冲上前来。

您紧握住我的手,说:

“乖孩子,看在上天的份儿上,离他们远些。”

我说:“妈妈,看我的。”

于是我策马飞奔,

剑和盾互相撞击,铿锵作响。

这场战斗是多么激烈,妈妈,如果您从轿子里看得见,您一定会打冷战的。

他们中有许多人逃走了,

大多数被砍成了碎片。

我知道您正独自坐在那里,心想,您的孩子此时肯定死了。

然而我跑到您的身旁,满身是血,说:“妈妈,战争已经结束了。”

You come out and kiss me, pressing me to your heart, and you say to yourself,

“I don’t know what I should do if I hadn’t my boy to escort me.”

A thousand useless things happen day after day, and why couldn't such a thing come true by chance?

It would be like a story in a book.

My brother would say, “Is it possible? I always thought he was so delicate!”

Our village people would all say in amazement, “Was it not lucky that the boy was with his mother?”

您从轿子里走出来,吻着我,把我搂入您的怀中,自言自语地说:

“如果没有我的孩子保护着我,我真不知如何是好。”

日复一日,上千件无聊的事发生着,为什么这种事就不能偶尔实现呢?