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特罗勒斯的情歌——英国诗歌之父杰弗雷·乔叟（中英文版）
(2007-01-11 10:29:23)If Love lives
not, O God, what feel I so?
And if Love lives, what thing and which is He?
If Love is good, from where has come my woe?
If it be bad, it's a wonder, thinks me,
since every torment and adversity
which comes from it savors of joys distinct
and still I thirst, the more of it I drink.
And if it's from my own desire I burn,
what spring gives forth my wailing and complaint?
If hurt pleases, why should my plaint return?
I know not, nor why, in health, I grow faint.
O live death! O strange hurt with Love's sweet taint,
how might you fester in such quantity
unless I give consent for it to be?
If I consent, I wrongfully devote
my heart to sorrow. Thus tossed, to and fro,
quite rudderless, I sit within a boat
in a sea which two winds must undergo;
each blasts against its contrary echo.
Alas! what strange malady have I got?
I die from heat when cold, from cold when hot.
And if Love lives, what thing and which is He?
If Love is good, from where has come my woe?
If it be bad, it's a wonder, thinks me,
since every torment and adversity
which comes from it savors of joys distinct
and still I thirst, the more of it I drink.
And if it's from my own desire I burn,
what spring gives forth my wailing and complaint?
If hurt pleases, why should my plaint return?
I know not, nor why, in health, I grow faint.
O live death! O strange hurt with Love's sweet taint,
how might you fester in such quantity
unless I give consent for it to be?
If I consent, I wrongfully devote
my heart to sorrow. Thus tossed, to and fro,
quite rudderless, I sit within a boat
in a sea which two winds must undergo;
each blasts against its contrary echo.
Alas! what strange malady have I got?
I die from heat when cold, from cold when hot.
特罗勒斯的情歌——杰弗雷·乔叟
假使爱不存在，天哪，我所感受的是什么？
假使爱存在，他究竟是怎样一件东西？
假使爱是好的，我的悲伤从何而降？
假使爱是坏的，我却觉得稀奇，
哪管它带来多少苦难和乖戾，
好似生命之源，竟能引起我无限的快感；
使我愈喝得多，愈觉得口里干燥。
如果我已在欢乐中活跃，
有何处来这愁诉和悲号？
如果灾难能与我相容，何不破涕为笑？
我要请问，既未疲劳，何以会晕倒？
啊，生中之死，啊，祸害迷人真奇巧，
若不是我自己给了你许可
你怎敢重重叠叠压在我心头。
可是我若许可了，我就不该再作苦诉。
我终日飘荡，象在无舵的船中浮海，
无边无岸，吹着相反的风向，
永远如此漂逐，忽上又忽下。
呀，这是一种什么奇特的病症，
冷中发热，热中发冷，断送我生命
假使爱存在，他究竟是怎样一件东西？
假使爱是好的，我的悲伤从何而降？
假使爱是坏的，我却觉得稀奇，
哪管它带来多少苦难和乖戾，
好似生命之源，竟能引起我无限的快感；
使我愈喝得多，愈觉得口里干燥。
如果我已在欢乐中活跃，
有何处来这愁诉和悲号？
如果灾难能与我相容，何不破涕为笑？
我要请问，既未疲劳，何以会晕倒？
啊，生中之死，啊，祸害迷人真奇巧，
若不是我自己给了你许可
你怎敢重重叠叠压在我心头。
可是我若许可了，我就不该再作苦诉。
我终日飘荡，象在无舵的船中浮海，
无边无岸，吹着相反的风向，
永远如此漂逐，忽上又忽下。
呀，这是一种什么奇特的病症，
冷中发热，热中发冷，断送我生命
Cantus Troili-Ernest H.
Wilkins
``If no love is, O God, what fele
I so?
And if love is, what thing and whiche is he?
If love be good, from whennes comth my wo?
If it be wikke, a wonder thinketh me,
When every torment and adversitee
That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke;
For ay thurst I, the more that I it drinke.
And if love is, what thing and whiche is he?
If love be good, from whennes comth my wo?
If it be wikke, a wonder thinketh me,
When every torment and adversitee
That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke;
For ay thurst I, the more that I it drinke.
``And if that at myn owene lust I
brenne,
Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my pleynte?
If harme agree me, wher-to pleyne I thenne?
I noot, ne why unwery that I faynte.
O quick deeth, o swete harm so queynte,
How may of thee in me swich quantitee,
But if that I consente that it be?
Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my pleynte?
If harme agree me, wher-to pleyne I thenne?
I noot, ne why unwery that I faynte.
O quick deeth, o swete harm so queynte,
How may of thee in me swich quantitee,
But if that I consente that it be?
``And if that I consente, I
wrongfully
Compleyne, y-wis; thus possed to and fro,
Al sterelees withinne a boot am I
Amid the see, bytwixen windes two,
That in contrarie stonden evermo.
Allas!what is this wonder maladye?
For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I dye."
Compleyne, y-wis; thus possed to and fro,
Al sterelees withinne a boot am I
Amid the see, bytwixen windes two,
That in contrarie stonden evermo.
Allas!what is this wonder maladye?
For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I dye."
Purity —Rabindranath Tagore（泰戈尔）
Life of my life,
I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing
that thy living touch is upon all my limbs.
I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing
that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my
love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.
that thy living touch is upon all my limbs.
I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing
that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my
love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.
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