雙語賞析《新月集》第7期:開始 The beginning

"WHERE have I come from, where did you pick me up?" the baby asked its mother.
She answered half crying, half laughing, and clasping the baby to her breast,-- "You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling.
You were in the dolls of my childhood's games; and when with clay I made the image of my god every morning, I made and unmade you then.
You were enshrined with our household deity, in his worship I worshipped you.
In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, in the life of my mother you have lived.
In the lap of the deathless Spirit who rules our home you have been nursed for ages.
When in girlhood my heart was opening its petals, you hovered as a fragrance about it.
Your tender softness bloomed in my youthful limbs, like a glow in the sky before the sunrise.
Heaven's first darling, twin-born with the morning light, you have floated down the stream of the world's life, and at last you have stranded on my heart.
As I gaze on your face, mystery overwhelms me; you who belong to all have become mine.
For fear of losing you I hold you tight to my breast. What magic has snared the world's treasure in these slender arms of mine?"

“我是從哪兒來的，你，在哪兒把我撿起來的？”孩子問他的媽媽說。
她把孩子緊緊地摟在胸前，半哭半笑地答道——“你曾被我當作心願藏在我的心裏，我的寶貝。
“你曾存在於我孩童時代玩的泥娃娃身上；每天早晨我用泥土塑造我的神像，那時我反覆地塑了又捏碎了的就是你。
“你曾和我們的家庭守護神一同受到祀奉，我崇拜家神時也就崇拜了你。
“你曾活在我所有的希望和愛情裏，活在我的生命裏，我母親的生命裏。
“在主宰着我們家庭的不死的精靈的膝上，你已經被撫育了好多代了。
“當我做女孩子的時候，我的心的花瓣兒張開，你就像一股花香似地散發出來。
“你的軟軟的溫柔，在我的青春的肢體上開花了，像太陽出來之前的天空上的一片曙光。
“上天的第一寵兒，晨曦的孿生兄弟，你從世界的生命的溪流浮泛而下，終於停泊在我的心頭。
“當我凝視你的臉蛋兒的時候，神祕之感淹沒了我；你這屬於一切人的，竟成了我的。
“爲了怕失掉你，我把你緊緊地摟在胸前。是什麼魔術把這世界的寶貝引到我這雙纖小的手臂裏來呢？”