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标题：Translating Now for Samuel Menashe - Poem
作者：Daniel Thomas Moran
期刊名称：Commonweal
印刷版ISSN：0010-3330
出版年度：2000
卷号：Dec 1, 2000
出版社：Commonweal Foundation

Translating Now for Samuel Menashe - Poem

Daniel Thomas Moran

   Maintenant,
   from the French.
   La main, the hand,
   wed to the verb
   tenir, to hold.
   As if in one's
   hand, la main.
   Becomes maintenant,
   that which one holds
   in one's hand.
   Not le passe, the past.
   That which is
   beyond our holding.
   Nor l'avenir, the future.
   That which is
   beyond our grasping.
   But maintenant, the present.
   That which we
   hold in our hand.
   All we can ever
   hold in our hand.