闻一多·《发现》英译

我来了，我喊一声，迸着血泪，

“这不是我的中华，不对，不对！”

我来了，因为我听见你叫我；

鞭着时间的罡风，擎一把火，

我来了，不知道是一场空喜。

我会见的是噩梦，那里是你？

那是恐怖，是噩梦挂着悬崖，

那不是你，那不是我的心爱！

我追问青天，逼迫八面的风，

我问，（拳头擂着大地的赤胸）

总问不出消息；我哭着叫你，

呕出一颗心来，——在我心里！

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Discovery

Wen Yiduo

I’ve come, I shout, bursting out in tears of woe,

“This is not my China—Oh, no! No!”

I’ve come because I heard your summoning cry.

Riding on the wind of time, raising a torch high,

I came. I knew not this to be unwarranted ecstasy.

A nightmare I found. You? How could this be!

This is terror, a bad dream over the brim of an abyss,

But not you, not what my heart continues to miss!

I ask heaven, ask the winds of all directions.

I ask (my fist pounding the naked chest of the earth)

But there is no answer. In tears I call and call you

Until my heart leaps out—ah, here you are!