ふたりきり、学者と猫
お互いに、日々の仕事を持っている；
君はハンティング、僕は研究。
君の輝く瞳は壁を見つめる；
僕はしばしばする目で本を覗き込む。
君は歓喜する、その爪でねずみを捕らえたとき；
僕は喜びに打ち震える、僕の頭脳が問題を解いたとき。
自分の技に満足し、どちらもお互いの邪魔をしない；
だから僕たちはずっと、退屈や嫉妬なしで暮らしてゆく。
Version by W.H. Auden:
Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are
Alone together, scholar and cat
Each has his own work to do daily;
For you it is hunting, for me study.
Your shining eye watches the wall;
My feeble eye is fixed on a book.
You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse;
I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem.
Pleased with his own art, neither hinders the other;
Thus we live ever without tedium and envy.
Alone together, scholar and cat
Each has his own work to do daily;
For you it is hunting, for me study.
Your shining eye watches the wall;
My feeble eye is fixed on a book.
You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse;
I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem.
Pleased with his own art, neither hinders the other;
Thus we live ever without tedium and envy.
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(text sourced from Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime)
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