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TELL me if this be all true, my lover, tell me if this be true.

When these eyes flash their lightning the dark clouds in your breast make stormy answer.

Is it true that my lips are sweet like the opening bud of the first conscious love?

Do the memories of vanished months of May linger in my limbs?

Does the earth, like a harp, shiver into songs with the touch of my feet?

Is it then true that the dewdrops fall from the eyes of night when I am seen, and the morning light is glad when it wraps my body round?

Is it true, is it true, that your love travelled alone through ages and worlds in search of me?

That when you found me at last, your age-long desire found utter peace in my gentle speech and my eyes and lips and flowing hair?

Is it then true that the mystery of the Infinite is written on this little forehead of mine?

Tell me, my lover, if all this be true.

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告诉我，这一切是否都是真的。我的情人，

告诉我，这是否真的。

当这一对眼睛闪出电光，

你胸中的浓云发出风暴的回答。

我的唇儿，是真像觉醒的初恋的蓓蕾那样香甜吗？

消失了的五月的回忆仍旧流连在我的肢体上吗？

那大地，像一张琴，

真因着我双足的踏触而颤成诗歌吗？

那么当我来时，

从夜的眼睛里真的落下露珠，

晨光也真因为围绕我的身躯而感到喜悦吗？

是真的吗，是真的吗，

你的爱贯穿许多时代、许多世界来寻找我吗？

当你最后找到了我，你天长地久的渴望，

在我的温柔的话里，

在我的眼睛嘴唇和飘扬的头发里，

找到了完全的宁静吗？

那么“无限”的神秘是真的写在我小小的额上吗？

告诉我，我的情人，这一切是否都是真的。