City of Orgies
City of Orgies
by Walt Whitman
City of orgies, walks and joys,
City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make
Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your
spectacles, repay me,
Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,
Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with
goods in them,
Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree
or feast;
Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash
of eyes offering me love,
Offering response to my own--these repay me,
Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
狂歡的城市
李野光 譯
狂歡的、世態(tài)紛呈的、充滿樂趣的城市，
總有一天，由于我在你當(dāng)中經(jīng)歷過和歌唱過，因而會使你顯赫起來的城市，
不是你的那些慶典，你那時時變換的場面，你的壯觀，在報償我，
不是你那些柿比連綿的房屋，或碼頭上的船只，
也不是大街上的人流，或者輝煌的陳列商品的櫥窗，
也不是跟學(xué)者們交談，或參加社交和宴會；
不是那些，而是當(dāng)我經(jīng)過你的時候，曼哈頓喲，你那頻繁而迅速地向我
傳遞的愛的眼色。
向我自己的眼色傳過來的反應(yīng)——是這些在回報我，
只有相愛者們，長久的相愛者們，在回報我。
瓦爾特?惠特曼簡介
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