【英诗鉴赏】A Pact

Toyger

A Pact
by Ezra Pound
  
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman--
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root--
Let there be commerce between us.

Toyger

合同

我和你订个合同，沃尔特.惠特曼——
我以前一直讨厌你，
现在我走向你，孩子长大
会离开愚蠢的父亲；
我年龄够大了，能自己交朋友。
你是伐下的新木，
现在是雕刻的时候。
我们合一种树汁，合一条根，
让我们好好交游。

赵毅衡 译