拜伦《哀希腊》
THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,---
Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.
The hero's harp, the lover's lute,
Have found the fame your shores refuse;
Their place of birth alone is mute
To sounds which echo further west
Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest."
The mountains look on Marathon---
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dream'd that Greece might yet be free
For, standing on the Persians' grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.
Which looks on sea-born Salamis;
And ships, by thousands, lay below,
And men in nations;---all were his!
He counted them at break of day---
And when the sun set, where were they?
And where are they? and where art thou,
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now---
The heroic bosom beats no more!
And must thy lyre, so long divine,
Degenerate into hands like mine?
'Tis something, in the dearth of fame,
Though link'd among a fetter'd race,
To feel at least a patriot's shame,
Even as I sing, suffuse my face;
For what is left the poet here?
For Greeks a blush---for Greece a tear.
Must we but weep o'er days more blest?
Must we but blush?---Our fathers bled.
Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three,
What, silent still, and silent all?
Ah! no; the voices of the dead
Sound like a distant torrent's fall,
And answer, "Let one living head,
But one arise,---we come, we come!"
'Tis but the living who are dumb.
In vain---in vain: strike other chords;
Fill high the cup of Samian wine!
Leave battles to the Turkish hordes,
And shed the blood of Scio's vine!
Hark! rising to the ignoble call---
How answers each bold bacchanal!
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?
Of two such lessons, why forget
The nobler and the manlier one?
You have the letters Cadmus gave---
Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
We will not think of themes like these!
It made Anacreon's song divine;
He served---but served Polycrates---
A tyrant; but our masters then
Were still, at least, our countrymen.
Was freedom's best and bravest friend;
Oh! that the present hour would lend
Such chains as his were sure to bind.
Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore,
Such as the Doric mothers bore;
And there, perhaps, some seed is sown,
The Heracleidan blood might own.
Trust not for freedom to the Franks---
They have a king who buys and sells:
In native swords and native ranks,
The only hope of courage dwells:
But Turkish force and Latin fraud
Would break your shield, however broad.
Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
Our virgins dance beneath the shade---
I see their glorious black eyes shine;
But, gazing on each glowing maid,
My own the burning tear-drop laves,
To think such breasts must suckle slaves.
Place me on Sunium's marble steep---
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep:
There, swan-like, let me sing and die;
A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine---
Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
【如梦忆桃源】玛拉顿后啊,山容缥缈,玛拉顿前啊,海门环绕。如此好河山,也应该有自由回照!我向那波斯军墓门凭眺,难道我为奴为隶,今生便了?不信我为奴为隶,今生便了!
战争平和万千术,其术皆自希腊出。德娄飞布两英雄,渊源皆是希腊族。
马拉顿后山如带,马其顿前横碧海。我来独为片刻游,犹梦希腊是自由。
希腊之民不可遇,希腊之国在何处?但余海岸似当年,海岸沉沉亦无语。
多少英雄古代诗,至今传诵泪犹垂。琴荒瑟老豪华歇,当是英雄气尽时。
一朝宫社尽成墟,可怜国种遂为奴。光荣忽傍夕阳落,名誉都随秋草枯。
岂无国士生列岛,追念夙昔伤怀抱。我今漂白一诗人,对此犹惭死不早。
巍巍西腊都,生长萨福好。情文何斐亹,荼辐思灵保。征伐和亲策,陵夷不自葆。
长夏尚滔滔,颓阳照空岛。窣诃与谛诃,词人之所生。壮士弹坎侯,静女揄鸣筝。
荣华不自惜,委弃如浮萍。宗国寂无声,乃向西方鸣。山对马拉松,海水在其下。
西腊如可兴,我从梦中睹。波斯京观上,独立向谁语。吾生岂为奴,与此长终古。
名王踞岩石,雄视逤逻滨。船师列千艘,率土皆其民。晨朝大点兵,至暮无复存。
一为亡国哀,泪下何纷纷。故国不可求,荒凉问水濒。不闻烈士歌,勇气散如云。
琴兮国所宝,仍世以为珍。今我胡疲苶,拱手与他人。威名尽坠地,举族共奴畜。
知尔忧国土,中心亦以恧。而我独行遥,我犹无面目。我为希人羞,我为西腊哭。
往者不可追,何事徒频蹙。尚念我先人,因兹糜血肉。冥冥蒿里间,三百斯巴族。
但令百余一,堪造披丽谷。万籁一以寂,仿佛闻鬼喧。生者一人起,导我赴行间。
槁骨徒为尔,生者默无言。徒劳复徒劳,我且调别曲。注满杯中酒,我血胜醹渌。
不与突厥争,此胡本游牧。嗟尔俘虏馀,酹酒颜何恧?王迹已陵夷,尚存羽衣舞。
鞞庐方阵法,知今在何许?此乃尔国土,糜散随尘土。伟哉佉摩书,宁当诒牧圉?
注满杯中酒,胜事日以堕。阿那有神歌,神歌今始知。曾事波利葛,力能绝天维。
雄君虽云虐,与女同本支。羯岛有暴君,其名弥尔底。阔达有大度,勇敢为世师。
今兹丁末造,安得君如斯?束民如连锁,岂患民崩离?注满杯中酒,倏然怀故山。
峨峨修里岩,汤汤巴加湾。繄彼陀离种,族姓何斑斑!傥念希罗嘠,龙胤未凋残。
莫信法兰克,人实诳尔者。鏠刃藏祸心,其王如商贾。骄似突厥军,黠如拉丁虏。
尔盾虽彭亨,击碎如破瓦。注满杯中酒,樾下舞婆娑。国耻弃如遗,靓妆犹娥娥。
明眸复善睐,一顾光娄罗。好乳乳奴子,使我涕滂沱。我立须宁峡,旁皇云石梯。
独有海中潮,伴我声悲嘶。愿为摩天鹄,至死鸣且飞。碎彼娑明杯,俘邑安足怀!
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