A Prayer in Spring/春天里的祈祷 2020.3

A Prayer in Spring 

by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasurein the flowers today;

And give us not tothink so far away

As the uncertainharvest; keep us here

All simply in thespringing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasurein the orchard white,

Like nothing else byday, like ghosts by night;

And make us happy inthe happy bees,

The swarm dilatinground the perfect trees.

And make us happy inthe darting bird

That suddenly abovethe bees is heard,

The meteor thatthrusts in with needle bill,

And off a blossom inmid air stands still.

For this is love andnothing else is love,

To which it isreserved for God above

To sanctify to whatfar ends He will,

But which it onlyneeds that we fulfil.

春天的祈祷

译者：徐家祯

来源：“六树堂文集” 博客

喔，让我们今天享受百花盛开的愉快，

让我们不去考虑远不可见的未来，

就如不用担心未知的收成，

就让我们留在春光明媚的现在。

喔，让我们享受白花布满的果园，

白天美得无以复加，晚上则是灵光闪闪。

让快乐的蜜蜂也使我们感到欢欣，

蜂群弥漫扩散在这完美的林间。

让突降的鸟儿使我们感到欣喜欢悰，

在群蜂的嗡营声中突然听到鸟儿的俯冲。

针嘴鸟儿如火花流星般冲下，

半空中停在一朵花前纹丝不动。

这就是爱，不会再有别的爱。

遥远的将来不是我们能够寻猜，

有决定权的只能是头顶的上苍，

而我们，只需满足上帝的安排。