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"There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in"
-- Leonard Cohen
"任何事物都會有隙縫
光線就是這樣滲進來的"
-- 李歐納‧柯恩
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【Portuguese Text】
Sky (Céu)
Sebastião da Gama
Tenho uma sede imensa,
mas não é de água...
Tenho uma sede imensa de beber
os soluços do Sol quando declina,
as carícias azuis do Luar de Agosto,
os tons rosa da Tarde que se fina...
É que eu seria poeta se os bebesse...
Não mais seria o cego de olhos limpos;
esse que viu a água e a não tocou,
pelo estranho pudor da sua boca
que um dia blasfemou.
E, se eu pudesse beber
esses longes de mim que vejo e quero,
em espasmos havia de os mudar
e, num desejo nunca satisfeito,
iria possuir-te, ó Mar!
Havia de cair, num beijo, sobre ti;
despir as minhas vestes de serrano,
tirar de mim aquilo que é humano,
e confundir-me em ti.
Gritem depois, embora, que eu morri;
alegre o Mundo o alívio do meu peso;
— que um dia o sol há-de surgir mais cedo
e o bom menino de olhos azuis,
de quem sou fraco arremedo,
há-de nascer, ó Mar, da nossa noite de Amor!
E tu, Menina que eu chamava,
Menina que eu chamava e encontrei
mas abrasada de amor divino
— tu hás-de ver então que o Céu que idealizas
é o olhar azul desse menino.
(From "Serra Mãe", Ed. Ática, 1996)
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漢譯撒巴斯迭‧達迦瑪【天空】
【天空】(Sky)
Sebastião da Gama
I have such a thirst,
but not of water…
我有這樣一種饑渴，
非是為了要喝水…
I have such a thirst to drink
the hick-ups of the Sun when it sets,
the blue caresses of the Moonlight of August,
the rose tones of the Afternoon that fades away…
我有這樣一種饑渴想要啜飲
日落時分那太陽的打嗝聲，
要啜飲八月裏那月光藍色的愛撫，
以及午後漸漸遠逝的玫瑰般的吟誦…
It's that I would be a poet had I drunk them…
no more would I be the blind with clear eyes;
who has seen the water and has not touched it,
due to the strange shame of his mouth
which has blasphemed in the past.
假若啜飲了這些，我將會是個詩人…
我將不再是那睜著明亮雙眼的瞽者；
雖然看見了水卻仍舊不肯觸摸
從他的嘴裏泛出奇異的羞愧
這是由於過去曾被褻瀆過。
And if I could drink
those far from me whom I see and desire,
in spasms I would have them changed
and, in a desire never satisfied,
and would go and possess you, oh Sea!
並且假若我能啜飲
那些離我甚遠卻為我所見且欲想，
在一陣痙攣過後我將徹底改變它們
並且，在那無以滿足的欲想裏，
我將趨前，同時佔有你，噢海洋！
I would fall, in a kiss, over you;
would take off my clothes of peasant,
would take from me that which is human,
and would confound myself in you.
就在一個唇吻裏，我將愛上你；
我將脫下那農夫的衣裳，
我將棄去我那屬人的靈性，
並且將把自己錯認是你。
Shout then that I have died;
happy the World, alleviated from my weight;
- that one day the Sun will raise earlier
and the good blue eyed boy,
of whom I bear weak resemblance,
Will be born, oh Sea, from our night of Love!
屆時我將高喊，我已死亡；
這世界多麼快樂，因減去我重量而輕緩；
- 有一天，太陽或將更早升起
而那與我長得略為相像，
有著美麗藍眼珠的少年郎，
將會，噢海洋！將會從我們歡愛的夜中臨降。
And you, Girl I used to call,
Girl I used to call and whom I've found
but inflamed with divine love
- you will see then that the Sky you imagine
Is the blue eyed look of that boy.
至於你，我慣常呼喚的女孩，
我慣常呼喚的女孩是我所發現
且洋溢著聖潔愛戀如焚身的火焰
- 屆時你將明白你想像的天空
竟是那少年藍眼珠般的形容。
(2002年6月3日，初譯)
撒巴斯迭‧達迦瑪 (Sebastião da Gama)，當代葡萄牙詩人，生平不詳。在詩歌第三節最末一行，英譯者使了 "blasphemed" 這個並不常見的字，在幾經思索後，決定譯為深具宗教意涵的「褻瀆」一詞。"blasphemed" 這個字，見於聖經《啟示錄16章9節》：「人被大熱所烤、就褻瀆那有權掌管這些災的神之名、並不悔改將榮耀歸給神。」(And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. --【Revelation 16:9】)
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