[转载]赵彦春英译闻一多《也许》

赵彦春英译闻一多《也许》

 也许你真是哭得太累，

也许，也许你要睡一睡，

那么叫夜莺不要咳嗽，

蛙不要号，蝙蝠不要飞，
 

不许阳光拨你的眼帘，

不许清风刷上你的眉，

无论谁都不能惊醒你，

撑一伞松荫庇护你睡， 

也许你听这蚯蚓翻泥，

听这小草的根须吸水，

也许你听这般的音乐，

比那咒骂的人声更美；

那么你先把眼皮闭紧，

我就让你睡，让你睡，

我把黄土轻轻盖着你，

我叫纸钱儿缓缓的飞。

Perhaps

By Wen Yiduo

Tr. Zhao yanchun

 Perhaps, you're tired, having so cried
Perhaps, perhaps you'll take a nap
Then let the nightingale not cough
The frog not croak, the bat not flap

Let the sun not stir your eyelid

Let the breeze not brush your eyebrow

No, nobody should wake you up

 The pine shade umbrellas you now

Perhaps you hear the earthworms twist

Hear the grassroots draw water there  

Perhaps you hear music like this

More beautiful than that, that swear

Then close your eyes, close your eyes tight

I will let you sleep, a sleep sound 

I will spread you with soil, light, light.

And fly joss paper all around

Wen Yiduo (Window, nicknamed Widow )（1899－1946）, one of the early leaders of the Chinese Democratic League, a reprentative poet of the Crescent Moon Group, known as a poet that dances in fetters.

Window was born into a scholar's family in 1899. In 1916, he began tp publish his notes in Tsinghua Weekly, named Febuary Room Notes. His works include such collections as Red Candle, Dead Water.

During his stay in the United States, he wrote "Song of Seven". He was assasinated in 1946 by GMT agents. 

He

put forward a proposal for New Poetry called "Three Beuties": Beauty of music, beauty of painting, and beauty of archtecture, wherewith he laid the foundation of New Metric Poetry, overcomed such inadequacies of Vernacualr Poetry as looseness and arbitrariness. This "three Beauties" proposal is regarded as his contribution to the New Metric Movement. 

Perhaps is an elegy addressed to his daughter in 1926. When he was teaching at a national politics and law university, his wife and daughter were seriously ill. At the news, he huurried back home only to see his daughter dead. After her burial, he wrote this poem.