Pipa Hymn: In The Bleak Midwinter

琵琶聖詩：《嚴冬懷主歌》

《普天頌讚》第131首    

Christina G. Rossetti, 1872, alt.      Gustav T. Holst, 1906

梁耀揚、黃永熙合譯，1973

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In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.

Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day,
Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels fall before,
The ox and ass and camel which adore.

Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But His mother only, in her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the beloved with a kiss.

What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.

 

在寒冷嚴冬裏，凜風如怨訴，大地堅如鐵鑄，凝冰像石鋪；雪花紛紜雪上雪，蓋地又蔽天，在寒冷嚴冬裏，遠遠在當年。

蒼天何能容祂，大地更卑微，當祂降世統治，天地都迴避；在寒冷的嚴冬裏，馬槽棲身地，反容道成肉身，基督主上帝。

天使與眾天軍，排列在上方，基路伯撒拉弗，環立在身旁；惟有主貞潔母親，喜樂滿胸襟，她用慈祥輕吻，來崇拜聖嬰。

像我如此貧乏，無物可獻上，我若是個牧人，我願獻小羊；我若是東方博士，本分我當盡，但我所能獻呈，祇有我的心。