第73章 世界上最美丽的玫瑰 The Loveliest Rose in the World (第2/5页)

；但那里的哪一朵玫瑰能展现出最高尚、最纯洁的爱呢？

the flower must be one from the garden of love; but which of the roses there showed forth the highest and purest love?

诗人们歌颂着这朵世界上最美丽的玫瑰，每个人都说出一朵自己认为配得上这个称号的玫瑰；关于所需之物的消息被传送到每一颗因爱而跳动的心里；传送到每一个阶层、每一个年龄段、每一种境遇的人那里。

the poets sang of this rose, the loveliest in the world, and each named one which he considered worthy of that title; and intelligence of what was required was sent far and wide to every heart that beat with love; to every class, age, and condition.

“还没有人说出那朵花的名字，” 智者说。

“No one has yet named the flower,” said the wise man.

“还没有人指出它盛开得无比绚烂的地方。它不是来自罗密欧与朱丽叶棺木上的玫瑰，也不是来自瓦尔堡墓上的玫瑰，尽管这些玫瑰会在永恒的歌谣中长存。它也不是从温克尔里德那沾满鲜血的英名中萌发出来的玫瑰。一位为祖国捐躯的英雄胸膛里流淌出的鲜血是神圣的，他的英名是甜蜜的，没有哪朵玫瑰能比从他血管里流淌出的鲜血更红。它也不是科学的神奇之花，为了得到这奇妙的花朵，一个人会在孤寂的斗室里，在无数个不眠之夜，耗费自己青春年少时的许多时光。”

“No one has pointed out the spot where it blooms in all its splendor. It is not a rose from the coffin of Romeo and Juliet, or from the grave of walburg, though these roses will live in everlasting song. It is not one of the roses which sprouted forth from the blood-stained fame of winkelreid. the blood which flows from the breast of a hero who dies for his country is sacred, and his memory is sweet, and no rose can be redder than the blood which flows from his veins. Neither is it the magic flower of Science, to obtain which wondrous flower a man devotes many an hour of his fresh young life in sleepless nights, in a lonely chamber.”

“我知道它在哪里盛开，” 一位幸福的母亲说道，她带着可