《瓦尔登湖·第十七章·春天·Spring》第17节
Early in May, the oaks, hickories, maples, and other trees, just putting out amidst the pine woods around the pond, imparted a brightness like sunshine to the landscape, especially in cloudy days, as if the sun were breaking through mists and shining faintly on the hill-sides here and there. On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whippoorwill, the brown-thrasher, the veery, the wood-pewee, the chewink, and other birds. I had heard the wood-thrush long before. The phœbe had already come once more and looked in at my door and window, to see if my house was cavern-like enough for her, sustaining herself on humming wings with clinched talons, as if she held by the air, while she surveyed the premises. The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch-pine soon covered the pond and the stones and rotten wood along the shore, so that you could have collected a barrel-ful. This is the “sulphur showers” we hear of. Even in Calidas’ drama of Sacontala, we read of “rills dyed yellow with the golden dust of the lotus.” And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass. Thus was my first year’s life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847.
注释摘要
这一段是整个瓦尔登实验的时间标记与物种清单，也是梭罗对自己两年林居生活所做的最后一次季节盘点。他记录的是五月初的林地：橡树、山核桃、枫树在松林间刚刚抽出新叶，嫩叶反光极强，阴天里尤其明亮，好像太阳正从雾中穿透出来，零零碎碎地照亮山坡。这不是生机勃勃的繁盛景象，而是一种刚刚开始的亮度，疏朗而有层次。紧接着，梭罗罗列了一群熟悉的鸟：五月三四日他在湖上见到潜鸟，…