2021-11-20 Future Teachers of America Day

【A Postcard from the Volcano (1936)】 

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

             Children picking up our bones

             Will never know that these were once   

             As quick as foxes on the hill;

             And that in autumn, when the grapes

             Made sharp air sharper by their smell   

             These had a being, breathing frost;

             And least will guess that with our bones   

             We left much more, left what still is

             The look of things, left what we felt

             At what we saw. The spring clouds blow   

             Above the shuttered mansion-house,   

             Beyond our gate and the windy sky

             Cries out a literate despair.

             We knew for long the mansion's look   

             And what we said of it became

             A part of what it is ... Children, 

             Still weaving budded aureoles,

             Will speak our speech and never know,

             Will say of the mansion that it seems   

             As if he that lived there left behind  

             A spirit storming in blank walls,

             A dirty house in a gutted world,

             A tatter of shadows peaked to white,   

             Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun.

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【《一张来自火山的明信片》(1936年)】

异乡人•史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            孩子们捡起我们的骨骸

            永远无从得知这些曾经

            疾如山上飞奔的狐狸；

            秋日来临，当葡萄

            在空中弥散出更加清新的芳香

            曾经的生命，正饱尝岁寒霜苦；

            很少联想到我们的骨骸

            留下了很多东西，而保存至今的是

            事物的外表，感觉到的

            所见之物。春天云卷

            掠过格窗房顶，

            穿过门外还有大片飘逸的天空

            难言无望地哭喊，

            我们早就熟悉房子外观

            要说的话已变成

            它的组成部分…孩子们，

            还在编织嫩枝梦环，

            想要谈论没有经历的往事，

            说起房子，看上去

            好像他曾在那里见过

            幽灵闯入空白的墙壁，

            虚无世界里肮脏的房子，

            渐成白色的碎影，

            涂抹上金色的阳光。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2016：Thanksgiving Dinner(感恩节聚餐)

2012: 黄热病疫苗(Yellow Fever Vaccination)

Hellerick's Family Farm (自信家庭农场 11-20-2021)

Aerial Adventure (空中冒险)

Pumpkin Faces (南瓜脸谱 11-20-2021)

Pastoral Landscape (田园风光 11-20-2021)

Goat Yoga (山羊瑜伽)

Hay Wagon (干草车 11-20-2021)

Silo (筒仓)

Ruler Measured for Tickets (售票标尺)

Feral Goat (野山羊)

Pygmy Goat (侏儒山羊)

Castle Valley Park (城堡谷公园 11-20-2021)

Neshaminy Creek (双河溪)

Castle Valley Mill (城堡谷磨坊)

Silos @ (Castle Valley Mill (城堡谷磨坊·筒仓)

Mill Creek Preserve (磨溪保留地 11-20-2021)

Maizeland (玉米田)

Corns (玉米)

Country Road (乡村小路)

Maizeland (玉米田)

Aerial View of Eureka Stone Quarry (鸟瞰奇异采石场)

Eureka Stone Quarry (奇异采石场)

Eureka Stone Quarry (奇异采石场)

Eureka Stone Quarry (奇异采石场)

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