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● 金子みすゞさんの詩情とその英訳
59.雪
だれも知らない野のはてで
青い小烏が死にました
さむいさむいくれがたに
そのなきがらをうめよとて
お空は雪をまきました
ふかくふかく音もなく
人は知らねど人里の
家もおともにたちました
しろいしろいかつぎ着て
やがてほのぼのあくる朝
空はみごとに晴れました
あおくあおくうつくしく
小さいきれいなたましいの
神さまのお国へゆくみちを
ひろくひろくあけようと
（添削）
Snow
In a remote out-or-the-way field
that nobody knows
a blue bird passed away
at (a削除) nightfall in bitter cold.
In order to bury the lifeless body
the sky scattered snow
piled deep in dead silence.
Nobody knows that
a village cottage in the field followed the bird,
shrouded in a lady’s veil, snow-white.
It was not long before
the first streaks of light began to glimmer
in the sky, at its clear best,
beautifully bright and serine in blue,
so that their souls, tiny and graceful,
may be led to Province
through broad and widely open (to削除) space.
（できあがり）
Snow
In a remote out-or-the-way field
that nobody knows
a blue bird passed away
at nightfall in bitter cold.
In order to bury the lifeless body
the sky scattered snow
piled deep in dead silence.
Nobody knows that
a village cottage in the field followed the bird,
shrouded in a lady’s veil, snow-white.
It was not long before
the first streaks of light began to glimmer
in the sky, at its clear best,
beautifully bright and serine in blue,
so that their souls, tiny and graceful,
may be led to Province
through broad and widely open space.
60.日の光
おてんと様のお使いが
そろって空をたちました。
みちで出会ったみなみ風、
(何しに、どこへ。)とききました。
ひとりは答えていいました。
(この「明るさ」を地にまくの、
みんながお仕事できるよう。)
ひとりはさもうれしそう。
(わたしはお花をさかせるの、
世界をたのしくするために。)
ひとリはやさしく、おとなしく、
(わたしはきよいたましいの、
のぼるそリ橋かけるのよ。)
のこったひとリはさみしそう。
(わたしは「かげ」をつくるため、
やっぱリーしょにまいリます。)
（添削）
Sunlight
the apostles of the sun,
all together, left the sky.
The Southern who met them on the way
asked them where they were going and for what.
the first answered, saying
“I’ll scatter His brightness all over the ground
so that everyone can do his or her job well.”
The second looked highly delighted, saying
“I will have flowers come to bloom
so that everyone may enjoy the world in pleasure.”
The third looked generous and gentle in his manners, saying
“I will build an arch bridge
so that pure souls may use it for ascension.”
The last, left alone, looked sad, saying,
“I will also go with them
so that I can make (shadow) [⇒shadows] for all the beings.”
（できあがり）
Sunlight
the apostles of the sun,
all together, left the sky.
The Southern who met them on the way
asked them where they were going and for what.
the first answered, saying
“I’ll scatter His brightness all over the ground
so that everyone can do his or her job well.”
The second looked highly delighted, saying
“I will have flowers come to bloom
so that everyone may enjoy the world in pleasure.”
The third looked generous and gentle in his manners, saying
“I will build an arch bridge
so that pure souls may use it for ascension.”
The last, left alone, looked sad, saying,
“I will also go with them
so that I can make shadows for all the beings.”
61.お花だったら
もしもわたしがお花なら、
とてもいい子になれるだろ。
ものがいえなきゃ、あるけなきゃ、
なんでおいたをするものか。
だけど、だれかがやって来て、
いやな花だといったなら、
すぐにおこってしぼむだろ。
もしもお花になったって、
やっぱしいい子になれまいな、
お花のようにはなれまいな。
（添削）
If I changed into a Flower
If I changed into a flower
I would become a very good girl.
For if I did so I would lose my speech
and disable myself from walking,
which would certainly stop me
from doing a mischievous prank.
However, if somebody came close to me
and told me that I were a disgusting flower,
then I would immediately fade in anger.
Now I realize that even if I changed into a flower,
still I would not become (good like) [⇒as good as] the flower.
（できあがり）
If I changed into a Flower
If I changed into a flower
I would become a very good girl.
For if I did so I would lose my speech
and disable myself from walking,
which would certainly stop me
from doing a mischievous prank.
However, if somebody came close to me
and told me that I were a disgusting flower,
then I would immediately fade in anger.
Now I realize that even if I changed into a flower,
still I would not become as good
as the flower.
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