最近新开一个板块【有诗共读】,和大家一起来读有思想有内容的好作品。而且,我们说好用英音。
今天,我来和大家一起读一首肃穆悲伤却可以是大气磅礴的作品。来自Laurence Binyon的 For the Fallen。
"For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon
read by KEVIN
music: Red Warrior/The Last Samurai
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
谨献给阵亡将士
像母亲对孩子怀着骄傲的感激之情,
英格兰为她的阵亡将士致哀,
他们都是母亲的骨肉,具有母亲的神魂,
他们为自由的事业献出了生命.
鼓声低沉而令人战栗;死神威严且不可抗拒,
吟诵中把哀痛送至不朽的苍穹,
在那哀伤中有我们吟唱的挽歌,
还有我们泪花上闪烁的光荣.
他们曾伴着歌声走向战场, 他们当时都年轻,
四肢灵活,眼神清澈,步伐坚定,神采飞扬,
他们亲历了前所未闻的战斗,个个视死如归,
他们倒下时全都面对着敌人.
他们永远不会老朽,不像我们留下来的日渐衰老:
他们永远不为耄耋所难,永远不为残年所累.
每当太阳落下,每当清晨来临,
我们就会想起他们.
他们不再与欢笑的战友们聚首;
他们不再坐在自家熟悉的餐桌旁;
他们不再参与我们每日的工作;
他们已然长眠在英格兰海疆之外.
我们的祈求和虔诚愿望无所不在,
就像看不见却感受得到的涓涓涌泉,
他们在家乡的土地上从此英名永驻,
就像群星在夜空中耀眼夺目;
犹如永放光辉的群星, 在我们化作尘土时,
他们在九天之上列队前行
犹如闪烁发亮的群星,在我们置身冥界后,
他们星光不灭,与日月同在.
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英国诗人Laurence Binyon大家可能并不熟悉,但是他这首所有作品中最为出名的【For the Fallen】成为了传世之作。这首诗是那场莫名其妙惨绝人寰的一战刚刚爆发时,诗人震惊于英国军人的阵亡人数,而写下的这批作品。一战是一场没有任何正义使命感的互殴。莫名其妙地爆发,又突然莫名其妙的结束。可是期间,造成的生灵涂炭和对人们精神世界的打击是空前绝后的。即便是规模更大的二战,起码还有正义的信念支持着反法西斯的人们。
在这场将欧洲拖入衰退进程恶魔般的战争中,仅一次冲锋数小时间就阵亡了6万士兵,用教科书上说的绞肉机来形容一点不为过。在同样的信仰面前,年轻人可以一起和着对方战壕里的敌人唱着自己熟悉的圣诞歌曲,第二天则拼死搏杀,甚至连敌人的影子都没有看到就倒在了机枪和铁丝网前。
这场战争让欧洲大量年轻的生命迅速消失,也牵动了整个世界的格局变化。之后,诞生了大量的文学艺术作品,因为它造成地创伤使得一个一个曾经安逸的灵魂在思考和反省。
当我在读这首诗的时候,我被那段“They went with songs to the battle, they were young,Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.“所打动。因此,我使用了【最后的武士】中的【红武士】的音乐来衬托这首作品。一声声的呐喊是明知自己会灰飞烟灭,也要证明自己的存在。无奈悲怆,却要在最后爆发出勇气。
和我一起,用英音来念这些作品,一起做这件听上去挺美的事。
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