Walt Whitman - To Foreign Lands 汉译

I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World,

And to define America, her athletic Democracy,

Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.

1860

给外邦

我听说你们在寻求某种东西以便解开“新世界”这个谜，

还打算给美利坚，她那健壮的“民主制度”下个定义，

因此我把我的诗篇寄给你们，让你们从中找到你们需要的东西。

1860