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LESSON 75 THANATOPSIS
第七十五課 對死亡的見解
To him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language;
對他，這個熱愛大自然而且同她的可見形體有交流的人，她用變化多端的語言傾訴；
for his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty;
在他快樂的幾個鐘頭里她聲音里流淌出愉快，淺笑盈盈，講得那般優美動聽；
and she glides into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy, that steals away their sharpness, ere he is aware.
當他苦思冥想時，她飄然而至，在他意識到之前，以能夠療傷治痛的溫婉同情，悄悄帶走他們的傷痛。
When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
當彌留之際的凄楚像一場枯萎病彌漫你的內心，在你眼前浮現的是悲慘的情景：極度痛苦、裹尸布、棺罩，
and breathless darkness, and the narrow house, make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;
死寂的黑暗，還有狹窄的墓室，這一切使你戰栗，愈發心悸；
go forth, under the open sky, and list to nature's teachings, while from all around earth and her waters, and the depths of air, comes a still voice.
去吧，到空曠的天空下聆聽大自然的教誨，而四面八方——大地和水中，以及大氣的深處傳來寂靜的聲音。
