泰戈爾詩選(英詩經典名家名譯)（簡體書）

The Hero
Mother, let us imagine we are travelling, and passing through astrange and dangerous country.
You are riding in a palanquin and I am trotting by you on a redhorse.
It is evening and the sun goes down. The waste of Joradighi lieswan and grey before us. The land is desolate and barren.
You are frightened and thinking-"I know not where we havecome to."
I say to you, "Mother, do not be afraid."
The meadow is prickly with spiky grass, and through it runs anarrow broken path.
There are no cattle to be seen in the wide field; they have goneto their village stalls.
It grows dark and dim on the land and sky, and we cannot tellwhere we are going.
Suddenly you call me and ask me in a whisper, "What light isthat near the bank?"
Just then there bursts out a fearful yell, and figures come run-ning towards us.
You sit crouched in your palanquin and repeat the names of thegods in prayer.
The bearers, shaking in terror, hide themselves in the thornybush.
英雄
媽媽，讓我們想象我們正在旅行，經過一個陌生而危險的國土。
你坐在一頂轎子里，我騎著一匹紅馬，在你旁邊跑著。
是黃昏的時候，太陽已經下山了。約拉地希的荒地疲乏而灰暗地展開在我們面前。大地是凄涼而荒蕪的。
你害怕了，想道——“我不知道我們到了什么地方了。”
我對你說道：“媽媽，不要害怕。”
草地上刺蓬蓬地長著針尖似的草，一條狹而崎嶇的小道通過這塊草地。
在這片廣大的地面上看不見一只牛；它們已經回到它們村里的牛棚去了。
天色黑了下來，大地和天空都顯得朦朦朧朧的，而我們不能說出我們正走向什么所在。
突然間，你叫我，悄悄地問我道：“靠近河岸的是什么火光呀？”
正在那個時候，一陣可怕的吶喊聲爆發了，好些人影子向我們跑過來。
你蹲坐在你的轎子里，嘴里反復地禱念著神的名字。
轎夫們，怕得發抖，躲藏在荊棘叢中。