이 것 또한 지나가리라 -Lanta Wilson Smith 詩

This Too Shall Pass Away

이것 또한 지나가리라.

Lanta Wilson Smith

 

When some great sorrow , like a mighty river, 슬픔이 강물처럼 밀려 올 때

Flows through your life with peace-destroying power, 그대의 생애에 평화가 깨어질 때

And dearest things are swept from sight forever, 가장 소중한 것들이 영원히 사라졌을 때

Say to your heart each trying hour : 매번 그대의 가슴에 말하라:

"This too shall pass away."  "이것 또한 지나가리라."

 

When ceaseless toil has hushed your songs of gladness, 끝 없이 힘든일이 밀려올 때

And you have grown almost too tired to pray,  그대의 기도가 지쳐갈 때

Let this truth banish from your heart its sadness, 그대의 마음에서 슬픔을 터러버리고

And ease the burdens of each trying days,  하루 하루 그대의 짐을 벗어버려라

"This too shall pass away."   "이것 또한 지나가리라."

 

When fortune smiles and full of mirth and pleasure, 행운이 그대에게 미소 짓고 환희와 기쁨이 가득 할 때

The days are flitting by without a care,  근심 없는 날들이 스쳐갈 때

Lest you should rest with only earthly treasure,  세상 것들에 안주하지 말며

Let these few words their fullest import bear:  진실된 이 몇마디 말을 마음에 새겨두라

"This too shall pass away."    "이것 또한 지나가리라."

 

When earnest labor brings you fame and glory,   그대의 진실된 노력이 명예와 영광을 가져올 때

And all earth`s noblest ones upon you smile,  세상의 가장 귀한 것들이 그대에게 미소지을 때

Remember that life`s longest,grandest story,   세상에서 가장 오래가고 위대한 것도

Fills but a moment in earth`s litttle while:   잠시 스쳐 지나가는 순간임을 기억하라

"This too shall pass away."  "이것 또한 지나가리라."  

번역 : Moon K. Lee

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 "This too shall pass away"문구는 성경의 말씀이 아니라, 이스라엘 민족에게 전래되는 설화(fable)-Midrash 속의 문구라고 한다. 우리의 삶 가운데 희노애락을 넘어서 교만한 마음, 시기와 미움의 마음,허무한 마음을 내려놓고, 사랑하는 마음, 겸손한 마음으로 천성을 향하는 기도가 필요함을 일깨우는 문구이다. 

구약성경중 Solomon왕에 의하여 쓰여진 전도서 각장의 내용이 이와 비슷한 맥락으로 쓰여져있다.

( 전도서 요약 )

[[ 모든 것이 헛되도다.  희락도 출세도 헛되도다. 왕(국가)에 복종(충성)하라. ]]

[[ 지혜가 우매함 보다 낫다.  젊었을 때 창조주 하나님을 기억하고 경외하라. ]]

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시중에서 판매되는 설화의 “This too shall pass away.” 반지

 

Lanta Wilson Smith

1856년 미국 메인주 출생으로 목사 사모가 되었으며, 교회지에 글과 500여편의 시를 남김..1939년 졸

Lanta Wilson Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, and died October 19, 1939 at Taunton, Massachusetts. 

From her early childhood Lanta sang and played the organ in church and Sunday school wherever her father was located.

When seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, where she received some instruction in music, and where she

began to write stories for the church papers. When David C. Cook introduced music and hymns into his publications, Lanta

began to write hymns, some of which were used by him. 

In 1880 Miss Wilson married Rev. C. Hartley Smith, and for twelve years they preached and ministered in Dakota. Both were musicians,and wherever they made calls, they were ask to sing some of the beloved hymns of the church. on returning east Mr. Smith joined the New England Southern Conference, and completed thirty-seven years of preaching. Mrs. Smith wrote more than five hundred poems, articles and hymns, the greater part of this number being hymns.

Origin of the fable <Wikipedia>

The fable retold by Fitzgerald can be traced to the first half of the 19th century, appearing in American papers by at least as early as 1839.[3] It usually involved a nameless "Eastern monarch". Its origin has been traced to the works of Persian Sufi poets, such as Sanai and Attar of Nishapur.[3] Attar records the fable of a powerful king who asks assembled wise men to create a ring that will make him happy when he is sad. After deliberation the sages hand him a simple ring with the words "This too will pass" etched on it, which has the desired effect to make him happy when he is sad. It also, however, became a curse for whenever he is happy.[3]

Many versions of comparable stories have been recorded by the Israel Folklore Archive at the University of Haifa.[6] Jewish folklore often casts Solomon as either the king humbled by the adage, or as the one who delivers it to another. In some versions the phrase is simplified even further, appearing as only the Hebrew letters gimel, zayin, and yodh, which begin the words "Gam zeh ya'avor" (Hebrew: גם זה יעבור‎, gam zeh yaavor), "this too shall pass."

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Hamabe No Uta (The Song  of Seashore : 해변의 노래)

Tamezo Narita 작곡

 

https://youtu.be/YNXwlo3Opcc

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