R.S.托马斯：光辉的田野

泅渡 译


我曾见阳光透洒下来
点亮了一小片田野，
那么一瞬，而我继续赶路，
置之脑后。可那是无价的
珍珠，内部丰盈的一块
宝田。如今我意识到，
我必得倾我所有
来赎取它。人生不是匆匆

赶往退却的未来，亦非追怀
回忆的过去。而是转过身来，
如摩西转向燃烧荆棘的
奇迹，转向一片光辉。
曾经，那光辉看似短暂如你的青春，
却正是永恒在守望你。


The Bright Field

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.