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藍山夜臥
Night at Blue Mountain
原詩The Poem
金絲帷，落地窗，銀漢迢迢湖中央。纖縷搖曳照不寐，秋風吹水下山崗。借問秋風來何方？“星河煙波渺蒼茫。燭龍冷光鎖日月，長夜漫漫何凄涼。聞道藍山正當時，湖闊如海起朝日。道道碧草流飛瀑，山山彩錦人如織。”“碧流如瀑今仍在，山中高樹葉已稀。楓紅如畫雖難覓，遍地秋余尚足奇。晝來徒步登高崗，遠眺重云蔽湖光。蕭瑟一片落輝里，樹樹深秋山山黃。山中黃葉滿山谷，幾度不辨身何處。賴有溪水淙淙下，聽流踏落尋歸途。路轉山回水聲急，砰然濺落深潭里。潭邊久佇不忍離，仰面碎玉風飄絮。攀巖牽枝繞深潭，細尋水流再不見。飛瀑日夜長流水，深潭難滿水不添？返途溪流未再現，悵然有失不欲言。房中久坐垂頭睡，神思纏繞夢魂牽。夜半明君動碧波，粼粼波光星之河。猛醒潭水已入海，秋波頻顧態婀娜。 ”我愿秋風送秋水，隨夢伴我到銀河。
作者英譯The Poet’s Own Translation
Gold-thread curtains, floor-to-ceiling glass.Far across the middle of the lake,the River of Stars trembles thread by thread,keeping me awake as autumn wind carries water downhill.I ask the autumn wind where it began.“Mist and starlight, dim and boundless.The Torch Dragon’s cold light locks away sun and moon—how desolate this long night.I heard Blue Mountain was at its height:the lake broad as sea, lifting the morning sun;green runs streaming like waterfalls;mountains in brocade, people woven through the color.”“The green streams still fall,” I answer,“but the tall trees have thinned.Maple red, that painted blaze, is hard to find;yet autumn’s remnants are wonder enough.By day I climbed the ridge. Heavy cloudblotted the lake from sight.In the falling light, one desolate sweep:tree after tree in late autumn, mountain after mountain yellow.Yellow leaves filled the ravines; more than onceI could no longer tell where I was.Only the stream went speaking downhill.I followed its voice across fallen leaves toward home.The path turned, the mountain turned, the water quickenedand burst into a deep pool. I stood there, unable to leave,face lifted to shattered jade, wind-blown spraydrifting like willow down.Rock by rock, branch in hand, I circled the pool,but the stream was nowhere.A waterfall runs here day and night—why does the pool never fill, its water never rise?On the way back, the stream did not appear again.I felt its loss and had no words.Back in my room, I sat until my head dropped,mind entangled, dreams drawing me on.At midnight, the bright moon stirs blue water.Ripple after ripple becomes the River of Stars.I wake to understand: the pool has entered the sea;autumn waves glance back, graceful, again and again.”May autumn wind carry autumn water;may dream carry me beside itto the River of Stars.
註釋Annotation
- 藍山此處為加拿大安大略省的 Blue Mountain。
- 銀漢銀河。
- 燭龍古代神話中與晝夜相關的神靈。
- 明君依作者原釋，指月君，是對月亮的敬稱。
- 秋波兼寫秋日水光與顧盼的目光。
鑑賞Appreciation
一夜不寐，把白日尋水的困惑帶進與秋風的對話。瀑布、深潭、湖光與星河在回憶和想像中相接，失去的水流彷彿換了一種方式歸來。結尾不是解答山中的疑問，而是邀秋水同行，讓未明之處轉為仍可追隨的詩意。
A sleepless night carries the day’s search for water into a conversation with the autumn wind. Falls, pool, lake and stars connect through memory and imagination, as though the vanished stream has returned in another form. The ending does not solve the puzzle encountered on the mountain. It invites the water onward, turning uncertainty into something the imagination can still follow.