《语言论》章节试读

《语言论》的笔记-第187页

I believe that any English poet of to-day would be thankful for the concision that a Chinese poetaster attains without effort. Here is an example: (Not by any means a great poem, merely a bit of occasional verse written by a young Chinese friend of mine when he left Shanghai for Canada.)
Wu-river (1) stream mouth evening sun sink,
North look Liao-Tung (2), not see home.
Steam whistle several noise, sky-earth boundless,
Float float one reed out Middle-Kingdom.
(1) The old name of contury about the mouth of the Yangtsze.
(2) A province of Manchuria.中譯本（http://book.douban.com/subject/1116354/）頁204有此詩：吳淞江口夕陽斜，北望遼東不見家。
汽笛數聲天地闊，飄飄一葦出中華。案此詩很可能為李方桂所作。時間上說《語言論》成於薩、李二人相識後。且薩甚為看重李，甚至視其為自己最出眾之學生云。且李去米時似正從上海出發。至於“遼東”當是虛指，因為自吳淞口北望就是遼東。唯一不符合之處在“加拿大”，然李曾與薩往加拿大紅人村調查過，此或是薩誤記？