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مسيرة النساء ، قصيدة الكاتبة البريطانية سيسلي هاملتون  

ترجمة الدكتور عبدالله الطيب

مسيرة النساء

اهتفن اهتفن .. علِّين الغناء

اصرخن مع الريح .. فالفجر سيطلع

سرن .. سرن .. اختلن ميلا

بعلم يرفرف .. وأمل يفيق

أغنية في قصة .. وأحلام في مجد

إنهم ينادون بسرور .. ياللعجب

إلى الأمام .. اصغين كيف يعلوا

رعد الحرية ..  صوت السماء

نحن في الماضي .. طويلاً .. طويلا

جبنا بخوف من نور السماء

قويات .. قويات .. نقف أخيرا

بشجاعة .. وإيمان .. ورؤية جديدة

قوة في جمال .. و حياة في عمل

اسمعن النداء .. اسمعن .. ولبِّين

هؤلاء .. هؤلاء .. إلينا يشيرون

افتحن أعينكن .. على يوم سيشرق

رفيقات الجهاد .. انتن الجريئات

أوائل المعركة في القتال والحزن

ازدريتن .. احتقرتن .. ولم تأبهن

فأعينكن مشرعة على غد واعد

عبر طرق مرهقة .. وأيام كئيبة

تحملتن الآلام والجهد .. بثقة وإيمان

مرحى .. مرحى .. نقف منتصرات

ننسج الإكليل .. الذي ارتداه الشجعان

حياة .. نضال .. اثنان في واحد

يؤخذ النصر بالجسارة .. والإيمان

كل ما فعلتوه في ما مضى

كان استعدادا لعمل هذا اليوم

بعزم التوكل .. اطلقن المقاومة

واضحكن بأمل .. فالنهاية وشيكة

سرن .. سرن .. كلنا كواحدة

كتف بكتف .. وصديقة بصديقة

تعريف بالكاتبة:

ولدت سيسلي هاملتون في بادنجتون ، بريطانيا عام 1872.  بدأت حياتها المهنية كمعلمة ، لكنها تركت المهنة وعملت كممثلة وبرزت في ادوار مسرحيات شكسبير.  اتجهت سيسلي إلى الكتابة المسرحية ونجحت في ذلك.  ساهمت سيسلي في الحركة النسائية عبر كتابها تجارة الزواج والذي ناقشت فيه كيف ان النساء ينشأن لغرض النجاح في الزواج ، وذلك يعطل تطورهم الذهني. خلال الحرب العالمية الأولى ، ساهمت سيسلي في العمل التطوعي النسائي في مجال التمريض والعلاج.

بعد الحرب ، عملت سيسلي كصحفية وكتبت في مطبوعات مثل الدايلي ميرور والدايلي اكسبرس.  تعاونت مع المؤلفة الموسيقية اثيل سميث في تقديم قصيدة مسيرة النساء للجمهور.

توفيت الكاتبة عام 1952

The March of the Women

Shout, shout, up with your song!

Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking.

March, march, swing you along.

Wide blows our banner and hope is waking.

Song with its story, dreams with their glory.

Lo, they call and glad is their word

Forward! Hark how it swells.

Thunder of freedom, the voice of the lord

Long, long, we in the past

Cowered in dread from the light of heaven

Strong, strong, stand we at last.

Fearless in faith and with sight new given

Strength with its beauty, life with its duty

Hear the voice, oh, hear and obey

These, these, beckon us on

Open your eyes to the blaze of day

Comrades, ye who have dared

First in the battle to strive and sorrow

Scorned, spurned, naught have you cared.

Raising your eyes to a wider morrow

Ways that are weary, days that are dreary,

Toil and pain by faith ye have born

Hail, hail, victors we stand

Weaving the wreath that the brave have worn!

Life, strife, these two are one!

Naught can ye win but by faith and daring

On, on, that ye have done.

But for the work of today preparing

Firm in reliance, launch a defiance

Laugh in hope, for sure is the end

March, march, many as one

Shoulder to shoulder and friend to friend

Cicely Hamilton

 Cicely Mary Hamilton, the daughter of Danzil Hammill and Maude Piers, was born in Paddington on 15th June 1872.   After an education at a boarding school in Malvern, Cicely became a pupil-teacher. She disliked the work and soon found employment as an actress with a touring company. It was during this time she changed her name from Hammill to Hamilton. In 1897 Hamilton joined a Shakespearian company led by the English actor, Edmund Tearle. Over the next few years she appeared as Gertrude in Hamlet, Emilia in Othello and one of the witches in Macbeth.

Unable to obtain leading roles on the London stage, Hamilton decided to turn to writing. Her first play, The Traveler Returns, was performed at the Pier Theatre, Brighton, in May 1906. This was followed by Diana of Dobsons. The play was an immediate success and ran at the Kingsway, London, for 143 performances.

In 1908 Hamilton joined the Women's Social and Political Union. However, Hamilton disliked the autocratic way that Emmeline Pankhurst ran the organization and after a few months left to join the Women's Freedom League. She was also a founder member of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers Suffrage League. Hamilton wrote two propaganda plays, How the Vote was Won (1909) and A Pageant of Great Women. She also joined with the composer, Ethel Smythe, to write March of the Women.

Hamilton's most important contribution to the feminist movement was the influential, Marriage as a Trade (1909). In the book Hamilton argued that women were brought up to look for success only in the marriage market and this severely damaged their intellectual development.

On the outbreak of the First World War, Elsie Inglis, one of the founders of the Scottish Women's Suffrage Federation, suggested that women's medical units should be allowed to serve on the Western Front. With the financial support of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), Inglis formed the Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee. Hamilton was one of the first women to join the organization and in November 1914 helped to establish the 200 bed Auxiliary Hospital at Royaumont Abbey in France.

In the summer of 1916 Hamilton helped nurse soldiers wounded at the Battle of the Somme. This included treating 300 new patients in three days. Others who worked with her at Royaumont Abbey included Elsie Inglis, Louisa Martindale, Evelina Haverfield and Ishobel Ross.

In May 1917 Hamilton left the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit and joined the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. After training in England, Hamilton returned to France where she took control of a postal unit. However, soon afterwards, she was asked to form a repertory company at the Somme. For the rest of the war Hamilton's company performed a series of plays for Allied soldiers fighting on the Western Front.

After the war Hamilton became a freelance journalist working for newspapers such as the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express. She was also a regular contributor to the feminist journal, Time and Tide where she campaigned for free birth control advice for women and the legalization of abortion.

Hamilton's autobiography Life Errant, was published in 1935. Other books written by Hamilton include Modern Italy (1932), Modern France (1933), Modern Russia (1934), Modern England (1938), Lament for Democracy (1940) and The Englishwoman (1940). Cicely Mary Hamilton died on 6th December, 1952.