(Father: Cecil)
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愛爾蘭裔英格蘭桂冠詩人塞希爾•戴-路易斯（Cecil Day-Lewis，1904-72）寫的〈離家的小孩〉（“Children Leaving Home”）:
父親寫給兒女的一首詩.....
Children Leaving Home
Soon you’ll be off to meet your full-grown selves,
Freed from my guardianship to sweat out your own
life-sentence.
The house will be emptied of you,
For ever tie in time dissolves;
And you, once close to us like a whisper of blood, in
due
Season return, if return you will, as polite
acquaintance.
What will you then remember? The lime that crowded
Your bedroom window shading the square rose-ed beneath
–
All such everyday sights,
Hours by boredom or wrath enclouded,
Or those which burst like a rocket with red-letter
delights
In a holiday sky – picnics, the fair on Blackheath?
I heard you last summer, crossing Ireland by
road,
Ask the mother to re-tell episodes out your past.
You gave them the rapt attention
A ballad-maker's audience owed
To fact caught up in fable. Through memory's dimension
The unlikeliest scene may be immortalised.
Forgive my coldness, now past recall,
Angers, injustice, moods contrary, mean or blind;
And best, my dears, forgive
Yourselves, when I am gone, for all
Love-signals you ignored and for the fugitive
Openings you never took into my mind.
At that hour what shall I have to bequeath?
A sick world we could not change, a sack of genes I did not choose, some verse
Long out of fashion, a laurel wreath
Wilted ... So prematurely our old age inters
Puny triumphs with poignant might-have-beens.
Soon
you'll be leaving home, alone to face
Love's
treacheries and transports. May these early years
Have
shaped you to be whole,
To
live unshielded from the rays
Which
probe, enlighten and mature the human soul.
Go
forth and make the best of it my dears.
(Son: Daniel)
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