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2007.12.30

満月と冬休みの宿題

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カテゴリ：文学・芸術

ずいぶん遅くなりましたが、１１月２４日の満月です。

あまりにも大きな月だったの、撮影しました。

次も同じ日の満月。

新宿副都心が写っています。左中ほどに写っている物体は飛行船です。最近はよく渋谷や新宿の上空を遊覧飛行船が飛んでいます。

ところで、うっかり冬休みの宿題を出すのを忘れていました（笑）。もちろん冗談ですが、年明けにはイェイツの『The Wind Among the Reeds（葦間の風）』から「The Blessed（祝福されしもの）」と「The Secret Rose（秘密の薔薇）」を取り上げますので、よろしければ翻訳に挑戦してみてください。どちらにも薔薇が登場します。私もまだ訳しておりません。来年のお楽しみですね。

ますは「祝福されしもの」。この詩に出てくるCumhal（クーアル）とDathi（デェシイ）は、アイルランド神話上の人物です。

The Blessed
by William Butler Yeats

Cumhal called out, bending his head,

With a blink in his eyes, at the cave-mouth,
Between the wind and the wood.

And Cumhal said, bending his knees,
'I have come by the windy way
To gather the half of your blessedness
And learn to pray when you pray.

'I can bring you salmon out of the streams
And heron out of the skies.'
But Dathi folded his hands and smiled
With the secrets of God in his eyes.

And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke

Women and children, young men with books,
And old men with croziers and stoles.

'praise God and God's Mother,' Dathi said,
'For God and God's Mother have sent
The blessedest souls that walk in the world

'And which is the blessedest,' Cumhal said,
'Where all are comely and good?
Is it these that with golden thuribles
Are singing about the wood?'

'My eyes are blinking,' Dathi said,
'With the secrets of God half blind,
But I can see where the wind goes
And follow the way of the wind;

'And blessedness goes where the wind goes,
And when it is gone we are dead;
I see the blessedest soul in the world
And he nods a drunken head.

'O blessedness comes in the night and the day
And whither the wise heart knows;
And one has seen in the redness of wine
The Incorruptible Rose,

'That drowsily drops faint leaves on him
And the sweetness of desire,
While time and the world are ebbing away
In twilights of dew and of fire.'

次は「秘密の薔薇」。アイルランド神話に登場する大王コノハアの物語を詩にしたようです。

The Secret Rose
by William Butler Yeats

Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose,
Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those
Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre,
Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stir
And tumult of defeated dreams; and deep
Among pale eyelids, heavy with the sleep
Men have named beauty. Thy great leaves enfold

The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold
Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes
Saw the pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise
In Druid vapour and make the torches dim;
Till vain frenzy awoke and he died; and him
Who met Fand walking among flaming dew
By a grey shore where the wind never blew,
And lost the world and Emer for a kiss;
And him who drove the gods out of their liss,
And till a hundred moms had flowered red
Feasted, and wept the barrows of his dead;
And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown
And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown
Dwelt among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods:
And him who sold tillage, and house, and goods,
And sought through lands and islands numberless years,
Until he found, with laughter and with tears,
A woman of so shining loveliness
That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress,
A little stolen tress. I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows,
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?

ちょっと長いですね。年明けにゆっくりと解説したいと思います。
大掃除もあと一歩です。一部時間切れになりそうですが、毎年のこと。

明日は、大掃除と最後の買出しの合間を縫って、初冬の風景写真を紹介します。

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