庞德 vs 庞德

叶如钢

版本之一

A Pact
Ezra Pound

I make a pact with you，Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father；
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood，
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us.

版本之二

A Pact
Ezra Pound

I make truce with you，Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father；
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood，
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us.

版本之三

I make a pact with you，Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough
as a pig-headed father.
Now I  approach you as a grown child；
I am old enough to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood，
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us.

---叶如钢改写。

庞德的英文比我的好无数倍。这样的文字他不会写不出来。他不这样写， 当然有其理由。

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