黄金 - 比利·柯林斯

黄金

文/比利 柯林斯

译/原野

我不想大惊小怪

不过在佛罗里达的这个卧室

面朝东，对着一个湖

太阳初升时

水光倒映

整个屋子弥漫在那种

金色光芒之中，在这夏至黎明之时

它可能走过了巨石墓地的长长走廊

再说一次，我不想夸大事实

可它让我想起一种光

能在藏有珠宝内室的

墙壁上闪闪发出的光，而里面

珍珠和金币充满了银盘。

我愿意把它和一种火相比

就是阿佛洛狄忒（1）用它来点亮人类的眼睛那种

因此我们才能感受

另外三要素

但我最不愿做的

就是让光铺洒得太厚

让你冒失去自信的危险

比如说，这里早晨的光

会给每个人的思想

带来但丁的光环

并置于天堂的最后一层

以传达神的存在，

同时也把“神曲”

推向惊人的高潮并保持如此。

Gold

by Billy Collins

I don’t want to make too much of this,

but because the bedroom faces east

across a lake here in Florida,

when the sun begins to rise

and reflects off the water,

the whole room is suffused with the kind

of golden light that might travel

at dawn on the summer solstice

the length of a passageway in a megalithic tomb.

Again, I don’t want to exaggerate,

but it reminds me of a brand of light

that could illuminate the walls

of a hidden chamber full of treasure,

pearls and gold coins overflowing the silver platters.

I feel like comparing it to the fire

that Aphrodite lit in the human eye

so as to make it possible for us to perceive

the other three elements,

but the last thing I want to do

is risk losing your confidence

by appearing to lay it on too thick.

Let’s just say that the morning light here

would bring to any person’s mind

the rings of light that Dante

deploys in the final cantos of the Paradiso

to convey the presence of God,

while bringing the Divine Comedy

to a stunning climax and leave it at that