名人诗歌|Horse and Rider

Horse and Rider
Melissa Range

Sing unto（到，直到） the Lord a drift of a song,
a song that goes before the Law:

make of your voice a shaft^{2 of flame
shifting into cloud and back again,}

a rift^{1 in a wave, a crack（裂缝） in a wheel,
a road in the midst of the sea;}

make of your voice a staff turned snake
turned brass^{3（黄铜） turned tambourine4（小手鼓） .}

Sing of swift colts bolting
from their mares onto the plains of tender sand,

bolts of dyed（被染色的） silk rippling^{5 as they unfurl
cedar6（雪松） , sable7（黑貂） , silver, sunset, snow.}

Sing of the vacant（空虚的，空缺的） stables, the casks（木桶） of grain;
of the rakes（耙子） and forks that lean against the stalls;

of the stable-boysall younger sons
whose charges charge away.

Sing of helmets（头盔） hailed upon the fields,
gold flax and barley^{8 rotting in the bud;}

of the bare-headed boys who urge their chariots（战车） on
with surging throats: O sing of their black hair.

Sing of the groomed^{9 hooves（蹄） and flanks（两翼）
and haunches（腰部，臀部） brushed blinding in the glare,}

jolting^{10 the riders they bearall younger sons
until the sand tenders itself unto the sea.}

Sing this day of the gift of the Lord: the genesis（发生，起源）
of a song so old it has no attribution;

of a tongue's first poetrythe gleaming shard^{11
which broke from prose（散文） , from simple speech,}

the jagged line which founded epic^{12, identity, belief.
Sing of defeat, for without defeat, how could we sing?}

Sing of swords, shields, chariots, sifting^{13
down beneath the tangling14（纠纷，混乱状况） reeds.}

Sing of the clear dry heavens, the mottled sea
cedar, sable, silver, sunset, snow.

Sing unto the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously;
He has slaughtered^{15 whom He has slaughtered;}

He has shown Himself worthy^{16 of all our noise:
He has rid the earth of a few more horses, a few more boys.}