愛非所有

愛非所有

[美]E.V.米萊 譯：王小我

愛非所有：它不是酒肉

不是倒頭高卧，不是屋瓦，

擋不了雨來如漏

更不是載浮載沉的斷木行舟

帶涉水遇險的人，逃生漂流

愛的呼吸融化不了肺的滯厚

也不能凈化血與骨的黏稠

沒有愛是多麼孤獨

何妨與死神結伴為伍

時時刻刻，如此煎熬

痛苦難耐，哀啼求饒

或被猶疑不決無盡煩惱

想要寧靜，你的愛如數歸還

想要活命，經夜不熄的記憶也可兌換

這些都是可行，我卻難以從命

原文：

Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all : it is not meat nor drink

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain:

Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink

And rise and sink and rise and sink again;

Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath,

Nor clean the blood, not set the fractured bone;

Yet many a man is making friends with death

Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

It well may be that in a difficult hour,

Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,

Or nagged by want past resolutions power,

I might be driven to sell your love for peace,

Or trade the memory of this night for food,

It well may he. I do not think I would
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