Walt Whitman - To a Historian 汉译

You who celebrate bygones,

Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,

Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,

I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,

Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)

Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,

I project the history of the future.

1860

给一个历史学家

你这个表彰过去事迹的人，

你探索了各个民族的外部和表面，那已经展现了自己的生活，

你把人看做政治、集团、统治者和僧侣的奴才，

我，阿勒格尼山脉的一个居民，我把他当做他本人看待，一个有他自己权利的人，

按摩着那自身很少揭示过的生活的脉搏，（人对自己的巨大的自豪感，）

我是“个性”的歌手，勾画着未来的图形，

我设计的是未来的历史。

1860