Sharps and Flats
《升號與降號》是人類在居處前街上唱的一首小夜曲，是請求入場的懇求，是那座神秘房子裏的一塊地方。
這個世界是甜柔的——我不想死。
我希望居住在永生的人類生活中。
這是個人對宇宙生活的祈禱。
Sharps and Flats is a serehe streets in front of the dwelling of mao be allowed ary ahat house of mystery.
This world is sweet,--I do not want to die.
I wish to dwell in the ever-living life of Man.
This is the prayer of the individual to the universal life.
我第二次動身去英國的時候，在船上認識了阿蘇托什·喬德胡裏。他剛獲得加爾各答大學文學碩士學位，目前是去英國加入律師界。我們隻是從加爾各答到馬德拉斯的幾天內一起在船上，但十分清楚，友誼的深厚並不有賴於相識的久長。在這短短的幾天裏，他心地的純樸吸引了我，使以前我們從未相識的空隙似乎被我們的友誼永遠填補起來了。
When I started for my sed voyage to Englahe a board ship of Asutosh Chaudhuri. He had just taken the M. A. degree of the Caliversity and was on his way to England to join the Bar. We were together the few days the steamer took from Caladras, but it became quite evideh of frie depeh of a this short time he so drew me to him by his simple natural qualities of heart, that the previous life-long gap in our ace seemed always to have beeh our friendship.
阿蘇托什從英國回來時，成了我們中間的一個[1]。他直到那時還沒有時問或機會突破他的職業用以包圍他的一切障礙。所以他還沒有完全陷在裏麵。他的當事人的錢包尚未充分鬆開捆著他們金幣的繩子。阿蘇托什還是一個從各種文學園地裏熱心采集蜂蜜的人。那時滲透他的身心的文學風氣一點沒有圖書館裏的摩洛哥山羊皮的黴味，而是有一種來自海外的不知名的異國植物的芬芳。在他的邀請下，我於春季在那些遙遠的森林裏度過許多歡樂的時光。
When Ashu came ba England he bee of us. He had ime or opportunity th all the barriers with which his profession is hedged in, and so bepletely immersed in it. The money-bags of his ts had suffitly looserings which held their gold, and Ashu was still a in gathering honey frardehe spirit of literature whi saturated his being had nothiiness of library morocco about it, but was fragrant with the ski over the seas. At his invitation I enjoyed many a piic amidst the sprihose distant woodlands.
他特別喜愛法國文學的風味。我那時已在寫後來出版時名為《升號與降號》的詩，阿蘇托什能夠辨認我的許多詩歌和他知道的法國古詩的相似之處。他認為，所有這些詩歌中的共同要素是人世生活的歡樂對詩人的吸引，而這一點在它們的每一首詩歌中都有不同的表現。進入這一更廣大的人生未能實現的願望是它們的全部基調。
He had a special taste for the flavour of Freure. I was then writing the poems which came to be published in the volume entitled Kadi o Komal(Sharps and Flats). Ashu could dis resemblaween many of my poems and old Frens he knew. Ag to him the ent in all these poems was the attra which the play of world-life had for the poet, and this had found varied expression in ead every ohe unfulfilled desire to ehis larger life was the fuive throughout.
阿蘇托什說：“我一定要替你安排這些詩的出版事宜。”因此這任務就委托給了他。他認為以“這個世界是甜柔的”開頭的那首詩是全組的主音，所以把它放在這本書的最前麵。
"I ublish these poems for you," said Ashu, and agly that task was eo him. The poem beginning "This world is sweet" was the one he sidered to be the keyhe whole series and so he placed it at the beginning of the volume.