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2022年1月12日星期三
我们戴着面具,含笑且欺人
它遮住了我们的脸,掩饰了我们的眼神
----我们为人类的狡诈付出代价
我们满脸堆笑,满嘴花言巧语
但撕裂的心在滴血
世界为何如此聪明绝顶
细数着我们的每滴眼泪、每声叹息?
不,让他们看见我们
仅当我们戴着面具
我们微笑,但是,伟大的主啊
我们的哭泣源自痛苦的灵魂
我们歌唱,但土地却如此肮脏
它在我们脚下,又如此漫长
还是让世界做别的美梦去吧
我们戴着面具!
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!