白朗宁夫人：她的诗一如她的爱（二）

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　　抒情十四行诗集第二首
        　　But only three in all God's universe
        　　可是在上帝的全宇宙里，总共才只
        　　Have heard this word thou hast said, -- Himself, beside
        　　三个人听见了你那句话：除了
        　　Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
        　　讲话的你、听话的我，就是他--
        　　One of us ... _that_ was God, ... and laid the curse
        　　上帝自己!我们中间还有一个
        　　So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
        　　出来答话;那昏黑的诅咒落上
        　　My sight from seeing thee, -- that if I had died,
        　　我的眼皮，挡了你，不让我看见，
        　　The death-weights, placed there, would have signified
        　　就算我瞑了目，放上沉沉的“压眼钱”，
        　　Less absolute exclusion. `Nay' is worse
        　　也不至于那么彻底隔绝。唉，
        　　From God than from all others, O my friend!
        　　比谁都厉害，上帝的那一声“不行!”
        　　Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
        　　要不然，世俗的诽谤离间不了我们，
        　　Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
        　　任风波飞扬，也不能动摇那坚贞;
        　　Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars
        　　我们的手要伸过山岭，互相接触;
        　　And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
        　　有那么一天，天空滚到我俩中间，
        　　We should but vow the faster for the stars.
        　　我俩向星辰起誓，还要更加握紧。