母亲颂

文／纪伯伦

编者语：浓情5 月，我们又迎来了母亲节。在黎巴嫩著名作家、诗人纪伯伦的笔下，母爱是什么模样呢？郑振铎先生对此文的翻译又是如何展现汉语之美的？让我们一起来欣赏一下吧。

The most beautiful word on the lips of man⁃kind is the word“Mother”,and the most beauti⁃ful call is the call of“My mother”.

It is a word full of hope and love,a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart.

The mother is everything,she is our conso⁃lation in sorrow,our hope in misery,and our strength in weakness.

She is the source of love,mercy,sympathy,and forgiveness.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Everything in nature bespeaks the mother.

The sun is the mother of earth and gives it its nourishment of heart;it never leaves the uni⁃verse at night until it has put the earth to sleep to the song of the sea and the hymn of birds and brooks.

And this earth is the mother of trees and flowers.

It produces them,nurses them,and weans them.

The trees and flowers become kind mothers of their great fruits and seeds.

And the mother,the prototype of all existence,is the eternal spirit,full of beauty and love.

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人所能发出的最甜美的声音，就是“母亲”；最美好的呼喊，就是“妈妈”。

这是一个简单而又蕴含深厚的字眼，充满了希望、爱、抚慰和人心中所有亲昵、甜蜜和美好的情感。

在人的一生中，母亲就是一切，悲伤时，她是慰藉；沮丧时，她是希望；软弱时，她是力量。

她是同情、怜悯、慈爱、宽宥的源溯。

谁若失去了母亲，就失去了脑袋所依托的胸膛，失去了为他祝福的手，失去了保佑他的眼睛……

世界上的万物，都象征并表露出母性。

太阳，是大地的母亲，以她的热量孕育了大地，用她的光明拥抱着大地。

大地是树木花草的母亲。

她生育并培养它们，直到长大。

树木花草又是甜蜜的果实和萌发的种子的慈母。

而宇宙万物的母亲，则是充满美和爱、无始无终的、永恒不灭的绝对精神。