I Sit and Look Out

Walt Whitman

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world,

and upon all oppression and shame,

I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at

anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,

I see in low life the mother misused by her children,

dying,neglected, gaunt, desperate,

I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the

treacherous seducer of young women,

I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love

attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,

I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see

martyrs and prisoners,

I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting

lots who shall be kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest,

I observe the slights and degradations cast by

arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon

negroes, and the like;

All these-all the meanness and agony without end I

sitting look out upon,

See, hear, and am silent.

我坐而眺望

沃尔特·惠特曼

我坐而眺望世间所有的悲哀，所有的压迫和羞辱，

我听见年轻人悄悄地啜泣哽咽，为自己的痛苦，为所作所为懊悔不已，

我看见底层社会的母亲拉扯着孩子，绝望憔悴，奄奄一息，被遗忘在角落，

我看见饱受丈夫虐待的妻子，

我看见奸诈的骗子把少女诱惑，我看见战争、瘟疫和苛政，

我看见烈士与战俘。

在航行中，我看见了一场饥荒，

我见到船员抽签决定谁应该去死，以保其他人的生命，

我见到劳工、穷人、黑人等诸多生灵遭受着傲慢之人的藐视与侮辱，

所有这些———这一切无穷的痛苦与卑劣，我坐而眺望，

看着，听着，我默默无语。