颂诗译选
转变 The Convert
瞬息间我低下头之后
整个世界翻转並立得正直，
我出来老旧的路照得白晰，
我走在路上听见所有的人在说，
如林的舌头，像秋天的树叶未脫，
虽然不是不可爱只是奇異和轻松；
对於旧谜语和新教条，不是看轻
只溫和的，像人微笑着对待死者。
智者能给人一百张地图，
他们攀援宇宙像是爬树，
他们用许多理性的筛簸来翻去，
让黃金漏失卻收藏起砂砾：
这一切对於我都不如尘土，
因为我活了，我名叫拉撒路。
After one moment I bowed my head
And the whole world turned over and came upright,
And I came out where the old road shone white,
I walked the ways and heard what all men said,
Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed,
Being not unlovable but strange and light;
Old riddles and new creeds, not in despite
But softly, as men smile about the dead.
The sages have a hundred maps to give
That their crawling cosmos like a tree,
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free:
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
G.K. Chesterton（1874-1936）
English journalist novelist & poet
