Sunday, December 20, 2015

Pity the Nation - Kahlil Gibran.

Pity the Nation Extract from “The Garden of the Prophet” Gibran Khalil Gibran 1933 

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. 

Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press. 

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. 

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. 

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. 

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. 

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. 

Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

Khốn khổ nước tôi.
nguyên tác Pity the Nation, tác giả là nhà thơ Kahlil Gibran (nước Liban) 
Từ Linh phỏng dịch.
shared http://vuongtrinhan.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/mot-bai-tho-thuong-khoc-liban-ma-nhu.html

Khn kh nước tôi
Mê tín thì vô hn
Tôn giáo thì nông cn

Khn kh nước tôi
Mcáo mình không dt
Ăn go mình không trng
Ung rượu mình không làm

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Ca ngi côn đồ là anh hùng
Gi k xâm lăng là bn vàng

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Trong mơ thì ghét cay ghét đắng
Tnh dy li đầu hàng

Khn kh nước tôi
Ch dám nói năng khi đưa tang
Ch dám khoe khoang di sn hoang tàn
Ch dám phn kháng khi đầu sp lìa khi c

Khn kh nước tôi
Chính khách xo quyt như chó sói
Triết gia tung hng ch làm xiếc
Ngh thut bt chước chp và vá

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Kèn loa tưng bng rước k cai tr mi
Ri tng c chúng bng la hét phn đối
Ri li tưng bng kèn loa đón k cai tr khác

Khn kh nước tôi
Vĩ nhân càng nhiu tui càng lú
Thánh nhân ch mãi chưa ra đời

Khn kh nước tôi
C chia năm x by chơi
Phe nào cũng xưng mình là nước.

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