Poets to Come
Walt Whitman
Poets to come! Orators,singers,musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
But you,a new brood,native,athletic,continental,greater than before known,
Arouse! for you must justify me.
I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
I am a man who,sauntering along without fully stopping,turns a casual look
upon you and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
Expecting the main things from you.
1860/1867
未来的诗人
惠特曼
未来的诗人!未来的演说家、歌唱家、音乐家!
请不要今天为我辩护,申说我的所为是为了什么,
但是你们,一群新族,土生土长,朝气蓬勃,是新大陆人,比往者都伟大,
请站起来!务请你们为我辩护。
我自己不过写了一两句预示未来的诗句,
我只是向前行进了片刻,便又匆忙折回了黑暗之中。
我是这样的一个人,我放浪逍遥,从不停步,偶然转身看上你们一眼,随即又抬望别处,
我把这留给你们去证明、释清,
期望你们能肩负重任。
1860/1867
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