诗赏|惠特曼《草叶集》39

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Was somebody asking to see the soul?

See, your own shape and countenance,persons, substances, beasts,

the trees, the running rivers, the rocksand sands.

All hold spiritual joys and afterwardsloosen them;

How can the real body ever die and beburied?

Of your real body and any man's or woman'sreal body,

Item for item it will elude the hands ofthe corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,

Carrying what has accrued to it from themoment of birth to the moment of death.

Not the types set up by the printer return theirimpression, the meaning, the main concern,

Any more than a man's substance and life ora woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,

Indifferently before death and after death.

Behold, the body includes and is themeaning, the main concern and

includes and is the soul;

Whoever you are, how superb and how divineis your body, or any part of it!

有人要想看灵魂么？

看你自己的身体、面貌、人物、实体、野兽、树林、奔流的河川、岩石和沙土吧。

所有的人都在握到了精神的欢乐后才又将它放开；

真实的肉体如何能死亡并给埋葬了呢？

你的真实的肉体和任何男人或女人的真实的肉体中的每一部分，

都会从洗尸人的手里脱出转入到一个更适宜的境界，

携带着从诞生的时刻到临死的时刻所增加的一切。

印刷工人所排的铅字，决不能收回它们所印出的字迹、意义和其要点，

同样的一个男人的原质和生命或一个女人的原质和生命决不会回返到肉体和灵魂中，

不管在生前和死后都一样。

看哪！肉体包含着，同时也就是意义、要点，肉体包含着，同时也就是灵魂；

无论你是谁，你的肉体或这肉体的任何一部分，都是多么地壮丽，多么地神圣！