<p class="ql-block">你的孩子，其實不是你的</p><p class="ql-block">〔黎巴嫩〕紀(jì)伯倫</p><p class="ql-block">選自《先知》第四章“論孩子” </p><p class="ql-block">［黎巴嫩］紀(jì)伯倫（1883～1931） 原譯：冰心 重譯：西越</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">你的孩子，</p><p class="ql-block">其實不是你的孩子</p><p class="ql-block">他們是生命對于自身</p><p class="ql-block">渴望而誕生的孩子</p><p class="ql-block">他們藉助你</p><p class="ql-block">來到這個世界</p><p class="ql-block">卻非因你而來</p><p class="ql-block">他們在你身旁，</p><p class="ql-block">卻并不屬于你</p><p class="ql-block">你可以給予他們的是你的愛</p><p class="ql-block">卻不是你的想法，</p><p class="ql-block">因為他們有自己的思想</p><p class="ql-block">你可以庇護的是他們的身體，</p><p class="ql-block">卻不是他們的靈魂</p><p class="ql-block">因為他們的靈魂屬于明天</p><p class="ql-block">屬于你做夢也無法達到的明天</p><p class="ql-block">你可以拼盡全力變得像他們一樣</p><p class="ql-block">卻不要讓他們變得和你一樣</p><p class="ql-block">因為生命不會后退</p><p class="ql-block">也不在過去停留</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">你是弓，</p><p class="ql-block">兒女是從你那里射出的箭</p><p class="ql-block">弓箭手望著未來之路上的箭靶</p><p class="ql-block">他用盡力氣將你拉開</p><p class="ql-block">使他的箭射得又快又遠</p><p class="ql-block">懷著快樂的心情</p><p class="ql-block">在弓箭手的手中彎曲吧</p><p class="ql-block">因為他愛一路飛翔的箭，</p><p class="ql-block">也愛無比穩(wěn)定的弓</p> <p class="ql-block" style="text-align:center;">《On Children》</p><p class="ql-block">Your children are not your children.</p><p class="ql-block">They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.</p><p class="ql-block">They come through you but not from you,</p><p class="ql-block">And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.</p><p class="ql-block">You may give them your love but not your thought</p><p class="ql-block">For they have their own thoughts.</p><p class="ql-block">You may house their bodies </p><p class="ql-block">but not their souls,</p><p class="ql-block">For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,which you cannot visit, </p><p class="ql-block">not even in your dreams.</p><p class="ql-block">You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.</p><p class="ql-block">For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.</p><p class="ql-block">You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.</p><p class="ql-block">The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite.</p><p class="ql-block">And he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far.</p><p class="ql-block">Let your bending in the archer’s hands be for happiness;</p><p class="ql-block">For even as he loves the arrow that flies,so he loves the bow that is stable.</p> <p class="ql-block">And he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far.</p><p class="ql-block">Let your bending in the archer’s hands be for happiness;</p><p class="ql-block">For even as he loves the arrow that flies,so he loves the bow that is stable</p>