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由安钢的事情想起一首英文诗!

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛约翰·邓恩(John Donne,1572-1631)的《去吧,去抓住一颗流星》(GO, and catch a falling star),是所有选本必选的英语名诗。

如果你渴望看到奇特的景色,
看到别人没有见过的东西,
那么你不妨骑马出游,一万个日夜,
直到双鬓染霜,
当你归来之时,你会对我讲起
你见到的所有奇观,
然后发誓
美丽而忠贞的女子
这世上没有。

如果你能找到一个这样的女子,请告诉我,
那样的旅程一定很美好;
可惜不会有那样的旅程,我也不会离开这里,
也许我的隔壁就住着一个这样的女子,
也许你遇到她的时候,她美丽而且忠贞,
一直到你离家给她写信为止,她都是如此,
但是她
不等我归家,准已哄骗了
二三个男人。

(阮一峰 译,2006年8月18日)

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英语原诗

Song

John Donne

GO and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
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