Echoes
[愛爾蘭]托馬斯·摩爾
Thomas Moore
美妙的音樂在這夜色中
回**,
琵琶和號角將她喚醒,
從那草地和湖上
遠遠傳來回應的光輝!
然而,無論何時,
在星月輝映下,愛情
總會擁有更甜美純真的回音;
號角、琵琶和溫柔的吉他
將這些歌兒反複吟唱。
這便是歎息——年輕摯愛間
獨有的歎息,
隻有當這歎息被另一個人聽到——
被那唯一的愛人
再次呼出,送回。
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To Music at night
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away o'er lawns and lakes
Goes answering light!
Yet love hath echoes truer far
And far more sweet
Than e'er, beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn or lute or soft guitar
The songs repeat.
'T is when the sigh,—in youth Sincere
And only then,
The sigh that's breathed for one to hear—
Is by that one, that only Dear,
Breathed back again.