If Recollecting Were Forgetting
[美]艾米莉·狄更生
Emily Dickinson
如果记住就是忘却,
那我不愿记住什么。
如果忘却就是记住,
If recollecting were forgetting,
Then I remember not.
那么,我与忘却已没有距离。
And if forgetting, recollecting,
How near I had forgot.
如果思念是一种愉悦,
如果哀悼是一种欢乐,
And if to miss, were merry,
And to mourn, were gay,
那么,手指该是多么愉快,
因为今天它们已把这些收集!
How very blithe the fingers
That gathered this, Today!