Have you ever seen

你可曾见过

anything

生活中

in your life

有何物

more wonderful

奇妙得胜似

than the way the sun,

太阳的仪态，

every evening,

每个黄昏

relaxed and easy,

雍容而随和地

floats toward the horizon

向地平线漂浮

and into the clouds or the hills,

投身云朵或群山

or the rumpled sea,

或涟漪如皱的海洋，

and is gone--

然后消失——

and how it slides again

而它又会再次闪现

out of the blackness,

冲出黑暗，

every morning,

在每个清晨，

on the other side of the world,

出现在世界的另一面，

like a red flower

像一朵红花

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,

带着天堂般的油彩小溪向上流淌，

say, on a morning in early summer,

譬如在这初夏的清晨，

at its perfect imperial distance--

有着帝王式威严的完美距离——

and have you ever felt for anything

你可曾体味到任何事物

such wild love--

do you think there is anywhere, in any language,

像这狂放的爱——

a word billowing enough

你觉得任何地方任何语言中

for the pleasure

会有一个字具有如此翻江倒海的容量

像太阳这么

that fills you,

as the sun

足以涵纳

reaches out,

令你充盈的愉悦么？

as it warms you

当它喷薄而出，

温暖着你，

as you stand there,

empty-handed--

而你就站在那儿，

or have you too

两手空空——

turned from this world--

抑或你也

转身背对这世界——

or have you too

gone crazy

抑或你也

for power,

疯狂追逐

for things?

权力、

物质？