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第6章 我该怎样来爱你

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How Do I Love Thou

[英]伊丽莎白·巴雷特·巴朗宁

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

我该怎样来爱你?让我计数这些方式。

我爱你直到我的灵魂所能触及的

深度、广度和高度,在我视线之外,

摸索着,存在的极致和优雅的理想。

我爱你,如同日常所需一样必不可少,

如同阳光与蜡烛。

我自由地爱你,如同人们奔赴正义。

我纯洁地爱你,如同人们放弃表扬。

我爱你,用那将我陷入往昔痛苦的**,

我爱你,用我童年的忠诚。

我爱你,我原以为那种虔诚

早已随圣徒的消失而逝去。

我爱你,用我的呼吸,我的微笑,我的眼泪,我的整个生命来爱你!

而且,我会更深地爱你,在我死后,只要上帝允许。

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.