文 | [英国] R.S.托马斯
译 | 敏玲

《那光明的田地》 

太阳裂空而下

照亮一方小田地

我瞥看一眼

又匆匆赶路

瞬间忘记

如今我意识到

那是一块藏有宝藏的田地

是重价的珍珠

值得舍去我的所有来获取

生命

不是追赶那不断延后的未来

也不是留恋那想象中的过去

却如摩西的转身

向着那丛奇迹般燃烧的荆棘

那点燃的光明 

看似转瞬即逝

如同你曾经的青春

但却是等候你的永恒

THE BRIGHT FIELD

BY R. S. THOMAS*

I have seen the sun break through

to illuminate a small field

for a while, and gone my way

and forgotten it. But that was the

pearl of great price, the one field that had

treasure in it. I realise now

that I must give all that I have

to possess it. Life is not hurrying

on to a receding future, nor hankering after

an imagined past. It is the turning

aside like Moses to the miracle

of the lit bush, to a brightness

that seemed as transitory as your youth

once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

【*注】：R.S. 托马斯(1913-2000)，生于英国，圣公会牧师，英国威尔士现代诗人。

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