Night on the Prairies 草原之夜

　　Walt Whitman沃爾特 惠特曼

　　Night on the prairies,草原的夜晚，

　　The supper is over, the fire on the ground bums low,晚餐過了，火在地上輕輕地燃燒，

　　The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets;疲倦了的牧民裹著他們的毯子睡著了，

　　I walk by myself-I stand and look at the stars,我獨自散步―我站著觀望星星，

　　which I think now never realized before.那些我以前從沒有注意過的星星。

　　Now I absorb immortality and peace,現(xiàn)在我想著永生與和平，

　　I admire death and test propositions.我羨慕死亡，我思考各種問題。

　　How plenteous! how spiritual! how resume!多么豐饒!多么崇高!多么簡明喲!

　　The same old man and soul-the same old aspirations,同樣的老人和靈魂――同樣的舊有的渴望，

　　and the same content.同樣的滿足。

　　I was thinking the day most splendid ,我一直以為白天最為光輝燦爛，

　　till I saw what the not-day exhibited,直到我看見黑夜所展示的一切，

　　I was thinking this globe enough,我一直以為這個地球已經(jīng)足夠，

　　till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other,直到在我的周圍無聲地涌現(xiàn)出千萬個其他的星球

　　globes.現(xiàn)在空間和永恒的偉大思想已占據(jù)了我，

　　Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me,我要以它們來測量我自己，

　　I will measure myself by them,現(xiàn)在我接觸到其他星球的生命，

　　And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far,這生命跟地球上的生命一樣

　　along as those of the earth,來自遙遠(yuǎn)的地方，

　　Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,或是即將來臨，

　　I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,或是已經(jīng)超越了地球上的生命，

　　Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine,此后我將不再漠視它們，正如我不漠視我己的生命，

　　or waiting to arrive.或者那些在大地上跟我一樣到來的，

　　O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me,或?qū)⒁獊淼降纳?/p>

　　as the day cannot,啊，我現(xiàn)在知道生命不能向我展示出所有的一切，

　　I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.白天也不能 我看出我得等待那由死亡展示出來的東西。