风子 wrote:
Fitzgerald 英译的Omar Khayyam的Rubaiyat本身就是文学作品。每一首四句，韵角均为AABA，有点象古诗七言绝句类。诗的思想同中国哲学也非常接近。从前郭沫落译过。
你要弄个古诗体玩玩，一定很有味道。
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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!
28
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --
"I came like Water and like Wind I go."
53
With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.