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Day 9
第9天
The Lost Mistress
失去的戀人
Robert Browning
羅伯特·勃朗寧
All's over, then: does truth sound bitter
那么，一切都過去了。
As one at first believes?
難道實情的滋味
Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter
真有預想的那么難咽？
About your cottage eaves!
聽，麻雀在你家村居的屋檐周圍
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
唧唧喳喳地道著晚安。
I have noticed that, today;
今天我發現葡萄藤上的芽苞
One day more bursts them open fully
毛茸茸地，鼓了起來；再一天時光就會把嫩葉催開，
You know the red turns grey.
瞧； 暗紅正浙漸轉為灰白。
Tomorrow we meet the same then, dearest?
最親愛的。明天我們能否照樣相遇？
May I take your hand in mine?
我能否仍舊握住你的手？
Mere friends are we, well, friends the merest
"僅僅是朋友，"好吧，我失去的許多東西，
Keep much that I resign:
最一般的朋友倒還能保留：
For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
你烏黑澄澈的眼睛每一次閃爍
Though I keep with heart's endeavor,
我都永遠銘刻在心；
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back, Though it stay in my soul for ever!
我心底也永遠保留著你說 "愿白雪花回來"的聲音！
Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
但是，我將只說一般朋友的語言，
Or only a thought stronger;
或許再稍微強烈一絲；
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
我握你的手，將只握禮節允許的時間
Or so very little longer!
或許再稍微長一霎時！
