<p class="ql-block">A transport one cannot contain</p><p class="ql-block">May yet a transport be –</p><p class="ql-block">Though God forbid it lift the lid –</p><p class="ql-block">Unto its Ecstasy!</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">A Diagram – of Rapture!</p><p class="ql-block">A sixpence at a Show –</p><p class="ql-block">With Holy Ghosts in Cages!</p><p class="ql-block">The Universe would go!</p><p class="ql-block">——————</p><p class="ql-block">終究還是狂喜啊——</p><p class="ql-block">那狂喜洶涌到藏不住，</p><p class="ql-block">哪怕上帝不許蓋子打開，</p><p class="ql-block">讓它的歡愉顯露！</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">是圣靈被困籠中！</p><p class="ql-block">那是極樂的圖譜！</p><p class="ql-block">花六便士就能看的奇景，</p><p class="ql-block">整個世間都在跟注！</p> <p class="ql-block">嘉木試譯《極樂》</p> <p class="ql-block">What shall I do – it whimpers so –</p><p class="ql-block">This little Hound within the Heart</p><p class="ql-block">All day and night with bark and start –</p><p class="ql-block">And yet, it will not go –</p><p class="ql-block">Would you untie it, were you me –</p><p class="ql-block">Would it stop whining – if to Thee –</p><p class="ql-block">I sent it – even now?</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">It should not tease you –</p><p class="ql-block">By your chair – or, on the mat –</p><p class="ql-block">Or if it dare – to climb your dizzy knee –</p><p class="ql-block">Or – sometimes at your side to run –</p><p class="ql-block">When you were willing –</p><p class="ql-block">Shall it come?</p><p class="ql-block">Tell Carlo –</p><p class="ql-block">He'll tell me!</p><p class="ql-block">——————</p><p class="ql-block">我該怎么辦呢，</p><p class="ql-block">我心藏一只小獵犬，哭得那么可憐，</p><p class="ql-block">沒日沒夜地狂吠、驚跳，</p><p class="ql-block">卻怎么也不肯離開。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">如果你是我，你會松開它的鎖鏈嗎？</p><p class="ql-block">如果我現在就把它</p><p class="ql-block">送到你身邊，</p><p class="ql-block">它是不是就不再嗚咽？</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">它絕不會給你添亂的——</p><p class="ql-block">乖乖趴在你的椅子旁、墊子上，</p><p class="ql-block">或是壯著膽，沉醉在你膝上撒嬌，</p><p class="ql-block">或是在你的身側，偶爾陪你跑。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">你何時愿意答應</p><p class="ql-block">它能來呢？</p><p class="ql-block">告訴卡洛吧，</p><p class="ql-block">他會轉告我！</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">這首詩是狄金森有名的暗戀詩之一，寫于1860年。</p><p class="ql-block">她用“小獵犬”這個天真又柔軟的意象，把那種藏在心底、不敢說出口的愛戀，寫得格外動人：</p><p class="ql-block">這份愛像一只困在心里的小狗，不停嗚咽、不停試探，連靠近都怕打擾到對方，只能小心翼翼地問一句：我能來嗎？</p> <p class="ql-block">嘉木試譯《小獵犬》</p>