James Last & Richard Clayderman
Gheorghe Zamfir
Song of the Open Road (節選)
by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
Allons! the road is before us!
It is safe--I have tried it--my own feet have tried it well--be not
detain'd!
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the
shelf unopen'd!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn'd!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the
court, and the judge expound the law.
Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourselp. will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
PS:惠特曼一生只出過一部詩集,即《草葉集》。但《草葉集》從最開始出版到最後修訂的版本相差巨大。1855年7月4日(美國獨立日)初版的《草葉集》一共才12首詩,然後經歷八次修訂,八個版本,到1892年惠特曼逝世前,已出到第9版,裡面所收的詩歌也由原先可憐的12首發展成近四百首。