Walt Whitman - The Base of all Metaphysics 汉译

And now, gentlemen,

A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,

As base, and finale too, for all metaphysics.

(So, to the students, the old professor, At the close of his crowded course.)      

Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,

Kant having studied and stated—Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,

Stated the lore of Plato—and Socrates, greater than Plato,

And greater than Socrates sought and stated—Christ divine having studied long,

I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,

See the philosophies all—Christian churches and tenets see,      

Yet underneath Socrates clearly see—and underneath Christ the divine I see,

The dear love of man for his comrade—the attraction of friend to friend,

Of the well-married husband and wife—of children and parents,

Of city for city, and land for land.

一切形而上学的基础

听着，先生们，

我要说几句话，让它们一直留在你们的记忆和头脑里，

作为一切形而上学的基础和最后结论。

（在他那听者众多的课程结束的时候，老教授就是这样对学生们说的。）

研究了现代和古代，希腊和日耳曼的体系之后，

研究并阐明了康德、费希特、谢林和黑格尔之后，

阐明了柏拉图的学说，还有比柏拉图更加伟大的苏格拉底之后，

在长期研究了比曾经探索过、阐明过的比苏格拉底更加伟大的神圣的基督之后，

我今天回顾，体会了那些希腊和日耳曼体系，

体会了所有的哲学体系，体会了基督教教会和教义，

然而在苏格拉底的更深一层下面，却清楚地看到了，在神圣的基督的更深一层下面，我看到了

人对他的伙伴所怀有的热烈感情，朋友和朋友之间的吸引力，

那美满的丈夫和妻子之间，孩子们和父母之间，

城市和城市之间，国家和国家之间的热烈感情。