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Oh, then, methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
啊，嗆水的痛苦好難耐！浪濤聲在耳畔回蕩，多可怕啊！眼前浮現死亡的慘相！
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;
我仿佛看見千百條叫人膽戰心驚的破船；千萬人被魚嚙咬；
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, all scattered in the bottom of the sea.
金條、大錨、成堆的珍珠，還有難以估量的寶石，無價的珠寶，全都散落在海底。
Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes where eyes did once inhabit,
有的嵌進了死人的腦殼；在那些洞里，原先眼珠寄居那里，
there were crept, as it were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
而今爬著的東西似乎在輕侮肉眼，而反光的寶石，
which wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, and mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
沖那泥濘的海底調情，嘲笑那隨處散落的枯骨。
Had you such leisure in the time of death, to gaze upon the secrets of the deep?
布萊肯巴里你在彌留的瞬間哪有閑暇，窺視海底的秘密呢？
Methought I had; and often did I strive to yield the ghost:
我倒覺得有呢；我多次竭力想向魔鬼屈服；
but still the envious flood kept in my soul, and would not let it forth to seek the empty, vast, and wandering air;
可是那嫉妒的血液，還是淤塞了我的靈魂，不讓它出去追尋廣闊、巨大和變幻不定的天空；
But smothered it within my panting bulk, which almost burst to belch it in the sea.
可是，我的靈魂被遏阻在這氣喘吁吁的軀體里，幾乎就要裂開而將靈魂吐入海中。
Awaked you not with this sore agony? Oh, no; my dream was lengthened after life;
極度痛苦難自拔，還沒蘇醒嗎？啊，沒有，生命已逝去，夢境卻延續；
Oh, then began the tempest to my soul, who passed, methought, the melancholy flood,
啊，我的靈魂開始澎湃激蕩，仿佛涉過了憂郁的洪流，
with that grim ferryman which poets write of, unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
詩人們筆下那神情冷峻的船夫，把我帶進了長夜永復的國度。
