Exceeding sorrow
Consumeth my sad heart!
Because to-morrow We must depart,
75 “ O Death, How Bitter Is the Remembrance Of Thee to a Man that Liveth at Rest in his Possessions”
From Vulgate, Ecclesiasticus (in the Book called Apacrypha) 41: 1. Here the translation is taken from
Now is exceeding sorrow All my part!
Give over playing, Cast thy viol away:
Merely laying
Thine head my way:
Prithee, give over playing, Grave or gay.
Be no word spoken;
Weep nothing: let a pale Silence, unbroken
Silence prevail!
Prithee, be no word spoken, Lest I fail!
Forget to-morrow!
Weep nothing: only lay In silent sorrow
Thine head my way:
Let us forget to-morrow,
the King James Version.
This one day!
十九、啊！死亡
悲慟綿延
在我愁苦的心中侵襲 因為明天
我倆必須分離 而今悲慟綿延 在我五內淋漓
先別讓樂聲悠揚 將六絃琴高束 衹消臥躺
枕首在我身旁之處 請你，先別讓樂聲悠揚 不管是快樂，是嚴肅
什麼都別再說
淚水不再為什麼染頰 讓蒼白的沉默，保持沉默 沉默籠罩四下
請你，什麼都別再說
別讓我承受不下
明日就忘了一切！
別哭：只消臥躺 默默地傷悲 枕首在我身旁：
明日就讓我倆忘卻 今日即成過往
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Ah, dans ces mornes séjours Les jamais sont les toujours.76PAUL VERLAINE
You would have understood me, had you waited;
I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated Always to disagree.
What is the use of speech? Silence were fitter:
Lest we should still be wishing things unsaid.
Though all the words we ever spake were bitter, Shall I reproach you dead?
Nay, let this earth, your portion, likewise cover All the old anger, setting us apart:
Always, in all, in truth was I your love;
Always, I held your heart.
I have met other women who were tender, As you were cold, dear! with a grace as rare.
Think you, I turned to them, or made surrender, I who had found you fair?
Had we been patient, dear! ah, had you waited, I had fought death for you, better than he:
But from the very first, dear! we were fated Always to disagree.
Late, late, I come to you, now death discloses Love that in life was not to be our part:
On your low lying mound between the roses, Sadly I cast my heart.
I would not waken you: nay! this is fitter;
76 Oh! In these Dreary Abodes / The Never’ s Are the Always’
Death and the darkness give you unto me;
Here we who loved so, were so cold and bitter, Hardly can disagree.
二十、啊！在陰鬱的居所
“絕不”成了”永久” －波．魏崙
其實你會了解我，如果你肯等待 其實我可以愛你，親愛！不亞於他：
如果我們有足夠的耐心，親愛！
而宿命不使我們永不融洽
言語何益？沉默才更得宜：
免得後悔有些事不該講 雖我們所說的一切教人傷悽 難道我該責怪你，當你不在世上?
否，就讓大地，如掩埋你，一同掩去 往日所有拆散我倆的餘恨
一直，我由衷愛你，全心全意 一直，我捧著你的心
我也遇過一些溫柔的女人
而你卻冷漠，親愛！帶著特有的優雅 你是否以為我會轉身去找她們？
眼中祇有你的美，我豈會拜倒在別人裙下？
如果我們有足夠的耐心，親愛！啊，如果你肯等待 我會為你與死亡搏鬥，更勝於他：
但自開始的那一刻起，親愛！
宿命就註定我們永不融洽
遲遲，遲遲地我到你的身旁 死亡愛揭示愛在生前不屬於我倆 玫瑰夾側的土丘，是你長眠的地方 土丘上我擲下我的心，黯然神傷
我不會吵醒你：否！如此才更得宜；
死亡與黑暗把你交給我
此地我們如此相愛，也如此冷漠與傷淒？
我們不得不融洽