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第6章 我該怎樣來愛你

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How Do I Love Thou

[英]伊麗莎白·巴雷特·巴朗寧

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

我該怎樣來愛你?讓我計數這些方式。

我愛你直到我的靈魂所能觸及的

深度、廣度和高度,在我視線之外,

摸索著,存在的極致和優雅的理想。

我愛你,如同日常所需一樣必不可少,

如同陽光與蠟燭。

我自由地愛你,如同人們奔赴正義。

我純潔地愛你,如同人們放棄表揚。

我愛你,用那將我陷入往昔痛苦的**,

我愛你,用我童年的忠誠。

我愛你,我原以為那種虔誠

早已隨聖徒的消失而逝去。

我愛你,用我的呼吸,我的微笑,我的眼淚,我的整個生命來愛你!

而且,我會更深地愛你,在我死後,隻要上帝允許。

How do I love thou?Let me count the ways.

I love thou to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, When feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace.

I love thou to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thou freely, as man strive for Right;

I love thou purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thou with the passion put to use

In my old grief, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thou with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life—and, if God choose,

I shall but love thou better after death.