2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day

【Sunday Morning·VI (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Is there no change of death in paradise?

        Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs

        Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,

        Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,

        With rivers like our own that seek for seas

        They never find, the same receding shores

        That never touch with inarticulate pang?

        Why set the pear upon those river-banks

        Or spice the shores with odors of the plum?

        Alas, that they should wear our colors there,

        The silken weavings of our afternoons,

        And pick the strings of our insipid lutes!

        Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,

        Within whose burning bosom we devise

        Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《星期天早晨·之六》(1923)】

異鄉人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            難道天堂里萬物無生無滅？

            莫非成熟的果實從不墜落？否則樹枝

            總是沉甸甸地懸掛在那完美的蒼穹中，

            亙古未變，而又酷似我們迭興的塵世，

            宛若我們的河流奔注大海

            卻永遠無法到達，仿佛漸遠的兩岸

            怎麼說都難以匯合？

            何必沿岸再獻上梨兒

            只不過讓李子香飄滿地？

            哎呀，在那裡它們該穿我們的衣裳，

            我們午後的絲綢綾羅，

            並彈奏我們乏味的琴弦！

            死亡是美麗之母，神秘莫測，

            她那愛心洋溢的懷抱猶如我們終將歸返

            書夜無眠等待我們的慈母。

【注】離賓夕法尼亞“山林”州蒙哥馬利“巨人山”村好市多(Costco)倉儲量販店不遠的購物中心新開張了一家大型自助餐，主要提供中、日式料理，看上去跟三年多前因新冠疫情而關閉的海港日式海鮮自助廳(Minado Japanese Seafood Buffet Restaurant)布局雷同，吃起來與鐵板燒自助餐(Hibachi Buffet)味道相似，不過打點周六午餐的迫切心境早已把長膘的負疚感置之度外，再說生活本身當該擁抱自己忽悠情懷，將過往的抱憾付諸於現實，眼裡種着太陽，臉上長着美景，心中住着滋潤。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2021 How to Use College Education(如何利用大學教育)

General Castleman Statue @ Cherokee Triangle, KY

(肯塔基“草甸”州切諾基“不同語言的人”三角地·雕像《卡斯爾曼“城堡人”將軍》04-28-1991)

Atlantic City, Las Vegas of the East Coast in NJ

(新州大西洋城·東海岸拉斯維加斯“草地” 04-05-1992)

Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, SC

(南卡羅萊納“自由者”州·舊時奴隸交易所與監獄地牢 04-10-1993)

Steinhardt Conservatory of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC

(紐約布魯克林“美溪”植物園·斯坦哈特“石堅”溫室 04-30-1994)

Eastbank @ Chinatown, NYC

(紐約唐人街·大東銀行 04-08-1995)

The Beresford @ Central Park West, NYC

(紐約中央公園西·貝雷斯福德“大麥渡口”公寓大廈 04-20-1996)

Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village over the East River, City within a City in NYC

(紐約東河上號稱城中之城的史岱文森特鎮—彼得·庫珀“沙丘城——磐石·制桶商”村 04-11-1997)

United Nations @ Turtle Bay, NYC

(紐約龜灣·聯合國大廈 04-26-1998)

Memorial of the 1^st Black Mayor in Maryland, Annapolis 

(馬里蘭“心愛之地”州安納波利斯“恩典之城”·第一位黑人市長紀念碑 04-04-1999)

Romeo and Juliet @ Grounds for Sculpture, NJ

(新州雕塑公園·《羅密歐與朱麗葉“羅馬朝聖者與年輕”》04-09-2000)

Prometheus Strangling the Vulture (1943) @ Philadelphia Museum of Art

(費城藝術博物館·1943作品《普羅米修斯“遠見”勒死禿鷲》04-15-2001)

Financial Ctr @ the Bank of Hudson River, NJ

(新州哈德遜“靈魂之子”河畔金融中心 04-06-2002)

> 1-Mo-Old Baby @ Home, NJ

(新州本家·一個多月大的娃 04-11-2003)

Toddler-I @ Roll-over from NJ to PA 

(從新州搬到賓州·小幼兒生 04-25-2004)

Toddler-II @ Front Yard, PA

(賓州本家前院·大幼兒生 04-09-2005)

Preschool-I @ Subway Station of American Natural History Museum, NYC

(紐約美洲自然歷史博物館地鐵站·小幼童生 04-15-2006)

Preschool-II in Front of Monumental Engel Clock @ National Watch & Clock Museum, PA

(賓州國家手錶掛鍾博物館·大幼童生在“不朽的天使鬧鐘”前 04-22-2007)

Pre-Kindergarten under the Nose of HMS Surprise, Maritime Museum @ Embarcadero, CA

(火爐州金槍魚港·學前班預科生在海事博物館驚喜號郵輪前 04-05-2008)

Kindergarteners' Hands on Head @ UGCLC, PA

(賓州上格溫內斯“幸福”兒童學習中心·學前班生雙手抱頭 04-22-2009)

1^st Grade Spring Break @ Fairmount Waterworks along the Schuylkill River, PA

(費城斯庫爾基爾“暗”河畔莊園自來水廠·小學一年級春假 04-10-2010)

2^nd Grade Spring Break @ Statues of Ramses II on the Facade of Great Temple of Abu Simbel (13C BC), Egypt

(埃及公元前13世紀修建的阿布辛貝“先知”拉美西斯“太陽神拉之子”二世雕像·小學二年級春假 04-06-2011)

3^rd Grader @ Philadelphia Union. vs. Columbus Crew, PPL Park of Chester in PA

(賓州切斯特“兵營”城賓州電力與照明公司公園·小學三年級生觀看費城聯合隊與哥倫布“鴿子”船員隊足球比賽 04-14-2012)

4^th Grade Spring Break @ Kicker Rock of Galapagos, Ecuador

(厄瓜多爾“赤道”加拉帕戈斯“巨龜”群島踢石·小學四年級春假 04-05-2013)

Brother & Sister Allied @ the Recreation Soccer, PA

(賓州娛樂足球賽·上陣兄妹兵 04-26-2014)

6^th Grader @ Spring Concert, PA

(賓州春季音樂會·初一生 04-23-2015)

7^th Grader @ the Nave of Trinity Church, NYC

(紐約三一教堂正廳·初二生 04-11-2016)

8^th Grader w/ the Bucher's Knife @ Home, PA

(賓州本家·初三生主刀做飯 04-16-2017)

9^th Grader @ Yo-Yo, Lansdale Intl Spring Festival of PA

(賓州蘭斯代爾“林間曠地”國際春節·高一生抖空竹 04-21-2018)

10^th Grader in the Sight of Giant Three-Way Plug (Cube Tap 1970) @ Philadelphia Museum of Art

(費城藝術博物館1970年作品《巨型三角插頭》·高二生 04-27-2019)

11^th Grade Spring Break @ Waiting for Tear Gas (1938), Philadelphia Museum of Art

(費城藝術博物館1938年作品《等待催淚瓦斯》·高三春假 04-05-2020)

12^th Grade Spring Break @ Amy Salon during the Pandemics, PA

(賓州新冠疫情期間悅己髮廊·高四春假 04-11-2021)

Cherry Allée @ Centennial Arboretum, Philadelphia

(費城百年植物園·櫻花大道 04-08-2022)

Lunch @ Asiana Grand Buffet, PA

(賓州亞洲自助餐·午餐 04-29-2023)

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