作者：泰戈尔

译者：水石山房主人（仗剑书生）

标题为译者所加，古文版因句式和音韵需要，略有改动。

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译文1：

我要唱的歌，至今还未唱出。

我花费时日，反复调理琴弦。

时间未到，歌词未谐；只有我心中痛切的愿望。

花蕾还未绽放；只有风叹息而过。

我没见过他的容颜，也没听过他的声音；只听过他轻柔的脚步，从我屋前的路上走过。

一整天都在地上为他铺设座位；但灯未点亮，我也不能邀他进屋。

我生活在与他相见的希望中；但至今未能相见。

译文2：

欲献歌兮歌未成，日复日兮调吾弦。

时未至兮词不谐，唯有心中之愿何痛切。

花含苞而未放兮，唯有轻风叹息而低徊。

未见面兮未闻声，唯闻足音轻柔过堂前。

竟日敷坐于地兮，灯未明而不可邀。

寄余生于相见兮，时不可兮骤得。

英文原文：

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.

The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.

I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.

The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor; but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.

I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

译者手记：

《吉檀迦利》中的神，不是高高在上，凛然不可侵犯的样子，而是常常给人亲切之感。很多诗读来就像爱情诗，比如这一首，就像一个情窦初开的年轻人在等待自己的爱人。《吉檀迦利》常常让我想起屈原的《九歌》，《山鬼》、《湘君》、《湘夫人》诸篇，也有这种味道，因此，在部分诗歌的翻译中，我尝试了一下运用楚辞的形式。