济慈 | 就这样活着，——或昏迷地死去

灿烂的星

[英] 济慈

查良铮 译

灿烂的星！我祈求像你那样坚定——

但我不愿意高悬夜空，独自

辉映，并且永恒地睁着眼睛，

像自然间耐心的、不眠的隐士，

不断望着海滔，那大地的神父，

用圣水冲洗人所卜居的岸沿，

或者注视飘飞的白雪，象面幕，

灿烂、轻盈，覆盖着洼地和高山——

呵，不，——我只愿坚定不移地

以头枕在爱人酥软的胸脯上，

永远感到它舒缓地降落、升起；

而醒来，心里充满甜蜜的激荡，

不断，不断听着她细腻的呼吸，

就这样活着，——或昏迷地死去。

Bright Star

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thouart —

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —

No — yet still stedfast, stillunchangeable,

To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-takenbreath,

And so live ever — or else swoon to death.

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