The Indian upon God
- I passed along the water’s edge below the humid trees,
- My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,
- My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace
- All dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase
- Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:
- Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak
- Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
- The rains are from His dripping wing, the moonbeams from His eye.
- I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:
- Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,
- For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide
- Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.
- A little way within the gloom a roebuck raised his eyes
- Brimful of starlight, and he said: The Stamper of the Skies,
- He is a gentle roebuck; for how else, I pray, could He
- Conceive a thing so sad and soft, a gentle thing like me?
- I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say:
- Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay,
- He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night
- His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.
印度人论上帝
- 我在潮湿的树木下沿着湖岸漫步而行，
- 我的魂魄摇荡在暮霭里，双膝深陷在水草中，
- 我的魂魄摇荡在睡眠和叹息中；看见水鸡
- 成群湿淋淋在草坡上踱步，又见他们停止
- 彼此绕圈嬉逐，听那最年老的开口演说：
- 把世界衔在喙间，把我辈造就得或强或弱者，
- 是一只不死的水鸡；他居住在那九天之上；
- 月光洒自他的眼，雨水降自他的翅膀。
- 我继续向前走不远，听见一朵荷花在高谈：
- 创造并且统治世界者，他悬挂在一根茎端，
- 因为我就是依他的形象塑造，这叮咚的潮水
- 不过是他那广阔的花瓣间一颗滚动的雨滴。
- 不远之处的黑暗里，一只雄獐抬起他那
- 满含星光的眼睛，他说：重重天穹的铸造者
- 是一只高雅的獐鹿；否则的话，请问，他怎能
- 构想出多愁善感，像我这样的高雅生灵？
- 我又继续向前走不远，听见一只孔雀说：
- 创造百草创造千虫创造我悦目的羽毛者
- 是一只巨大的孔雀，他整夜在我们头顶上面
- 挥动疲倦的尾羽，上面闪亮着亿万个光斑。
傅浩 译
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此诗作于1886年，最初发表于《都柏林大学评论》（1886年10月），原题《印度人㤭哩之书第五章节选：论上帝的本质》；收入《乌辛漫游记及其它》时题为《印度人甘婆论上帝》。译按：甘婆是古印度仙人，《梨俱吠陀》中若干颂神歌的作者。
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