Walt Whitman - Poets to Come 汉译

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Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,

But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,

Arouse! for you must justify me.

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,

I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,

Leaving it to you to prove and define it,

Expecting the main things from you.

未来的诗人

未来的诗人！未来的演说家，歌唱家，音乐家！

今天请不必为我申辩，并解答，我是抱着什么目的，

但是你们是一群新人物，土生土长，健壮，属于大陆，是空前伟大的，

醒来吧！你们必须为我申辩。

我自己只为未来写下一个两个略有所指的词句，

我的前进只维持了片刻，马上我便急转身，又回到了黑暗中。

我是这样的一个人，漫步向前，却并未完全停驻，偶然向你们注目便随即转过脸去，

留待你们来加以证实、说明，

指望从你们身上获取主要的东西。