If Must Love Me
[英]伊麗莎白·巴雷特·巴朗寧
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
如果一定要愛我,就別問什麽緣由
隻為愛而愛吧。不要說,
“我愛她的微笑——她的容貌——她的
細語溫存——愛她的心思靈慧
正與我的心意相契相投,在那樣的日子裏
曾帶給我怡人的鬆弛——”
我親愛的,因為這些東西
都可能因你而改變,而失去——而愛,
也許因此相遇,也許因此分離。也不要因為
憐憫而愛我,來拭去我臉上的淚滴,
長久地接受你的慰藉,那造物主捏出的東西
或許會忘卻哭泣,但也會因此而丟棄你的愛!
隻為愛而愛我吧,這樣你就能
穿越那永恒的愛,永遠永遠地愛下去。
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
'I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day—'
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry.
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that even more
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.