If Recollecting Were Forgetting
[美]艾米莉·狄更生
Emily Dickinson
如果記住就是忘卻,
那我不願記住什麽。
如果忘卻就是記住,
If recollecting were forgetting,
Then I remember not.
那麽,我與忘卻已沒有距離。
And if forgetting, recollecting,
How near I had forgot.
如果思念是一種愉悅,
如果哀悼是一種歡樂,
And if to miss, were merry,
And to mourn, were gay,
那麽,手指該是多麽愉快,
因為今天它們已把這些收集!
How very blithe the fingers
That gathered this, Today!