雙語賞析《新月集》第8期:孩子的世界 Baby's world

I WISH I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very own world.
I know it has stars that talk to him, and a sky that stoops down to his face to amuse him with its silly clouds and rainbows.
Those who make believe to be dumb, and look as if they never could move, come creeping to his window with their stories and with trays crowded with bright toys.
I wish I could travel by the road that crosses baby's mind, and out beyond all bounds;
Where messengers run errands for no cause between the kingdoms of kings of no history;
Where Reason makes kites of her laws and flies them, and Truth sets Fact free from its fetters.

我願我能在我孩子的自己的世界的中心，佔一角清淨地。
我知道有星星同他說話，天空也在他面前垂下，用它傻傻的雲朵和彩虹來娛悅他。
那些大家以爲他是啞的人，那些看去像是永不會走動的人，都帶了他們的故事，捧了滿裝着五顏六色的玩具的盤子，匍匐地來到他的窗前。
我願我能在橫過孩子心中的道路上游行，解脫了一切的束縛；
在那兒，使者奉了無所謂的使命奔走於無史的諸王的王國間；
在那兒，理智以她的法律造爲紙鳶而飛放，真理也使事實從桎梏中自由了。