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阿奇波德•麦克利许

诗当了然澈
缄如圆圆果

无言自默默
荣章今摩挲

静若阑干人久凭
苔痕帘外生，罗袖将石破

诗当静无言
鸟雀自飞天。


诗当恍如凝
静中见月升

去似月拾枝
渐释幽中木

亦似皎月寒叶后
追忆萦心久，脉脉复悠悠

诗当恍如凝
静中见月升。

诗当何所同？
恍恍太虚境

万古悲痛生
寥落门廊一叶枫

爱者知何成？
海生日月草身倾

无伤意及旨
诗当如本是。

Ars Poetica

by  Archibald MacLeish

A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit

Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs

Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind -

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs

A poem should be equal to:
Not true

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf

For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -

A poem should not mean
But be

丙戌八月廿四 试译