长太息以掩涕兮，哀民生之多艰。余虽好修姱以鞿羁兮，謇朝谇而夕替。 既替余以蕙纕兮，又申之以揽茝。亦余心之所善兮，虽九死其犹未悔。 怨灵修之浩荡兮，终不察夫民心。众女嫉余之蛾眉兮，谣诼谓余以善淫。 固时俗之工巧兮，偭规矩而改错。背绳墨以追曲兮，竞周容以为度。 忳郁邑余佗傺兮，吾独穷困乎此时也！宁溘死以流亡兮，余不忍为此态也！ 鸷鸟之不群兮，自前世而固然。何方圜之能周兮，夫孰异道而相安？ 屈心而抑志兮，忍尤而攘垢。伏清白以死直兮，固前圣之所厚。 Long did I sigh and wipe away my tears, To see my people bowed by griefs and fears. Though I my gifts enhanced and curbed my pride, At morn they'd mock me, would at eve deride; First cursed that I angelica should wear, Then cursed me for my melilotus fair. But since my heart did love such purity, I'd not regret a thousand deaths to die. I marvel at the folly of the king, So heedless of his people's suffering. They envied me my mothlike eyebrows fine, And so my name his damsels did malign. Truly to craft alone their praise they paid, The square in measuring they disobeyed; The use of common rules they held debased; With confidence their crooked lines they traced. In sadness plunged and sunk in deepest gloom, Alone I drove on to my dreary doom. In exile rather would I meet my end, Than to the baseness of their ways descend. Remote the eagle spurns the common range, Nor deigns since time began its way to change; A circle fits not with a square design; Their different ways could not be merged with mine. Yet still my heart I checked and curbed my pride, Their blame endured and their reproach beside. To die for righteousness alone I sought, For this was what the ancient sages taught. (杨宪益、戴乃迭 译) |
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