散文：Will there really be a "Morning"?

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Is there such a thing as "Day"?

Could I see it from the mountains

If I were as tall as they?

 

Has it feet like Water lilies?

Has it feathers like a Bird?

Is it brought from famous countries

Of which I have never heard?

 

Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!

Oh some Wise Men from the skies!

Please to tell a little Pilgrim

Where the place called "Morning" lies!

 

 It is intriguing¹ to read this poem as a yearn² for the joy of day that will relieve us from the perpetual darkness. To interpret something so magnificent as a morning or a day, would she have to become bigger, or as she puts it, a mountain? With no sensory³ experience of the day, she is forced to use childish language and concepts, attempting to appreciate something she could never understand. Further on in the poem, she is kindly⁴ asking the best knowledgeable⁵ scholars, the most daring adventurers and the wisest men to locate morning on one of their carefully constructed maps. We are all pilgrims on a journey to find the true meaning or purpose to our lives. 

 

是否真有“黎明”？

是否真有“白天”？

我能否从山上看见

假如我高及山巅？

 

它是否像睡莲有根须？

它是否像鸟儿有羽毛？

它是否来自闻名国度

此前我未曾听人提到？

 

啊，哪位学者！啊，哪位水手！

啊，哪位天上的贤明！

请告诉一位小小的朝圣者

哪里有个地方叫“黎明”！

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