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紀伯倫說「孩子」

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紀伯倫的話永遠可以在不同時刻觸到酸處。

昨天去市政府看學生出國比賽前的募款演出,太早出門,就在 Page One 和信義誠品混了一整個黃昏,買到新譯的 Odyssey, James Joyce 的 Ulysses,
Robert Browning 的 Major Works, William Blake 的好詩選(要給一群大二的可愛孩子組【英國浪漫詩人讀書】會使用),最後看到紀伯倫的《先知》。這一本書我已經有三本中文版本了,從高中就買的「背面的字透過來」版本到精美口袋書。這是第一次買英語版。

在公車站牌任意翻看,彈跳出來的文字,彷‧彿‧若‧有‧光。

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And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,
Speak to us of Children.

And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters ofLife’s longing ofr itself.
They come htrough you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but nto your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but nto their soulds,
For their soulds dwell in the hosue of to-morrow, which you cannot
visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be liek them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of hte infiintie, and He
bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves th arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow
tat is stable.

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