“亮星！但愿我像你一样坚持”

Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art

济　慈

John Keats

亮星！但愿我像你一样坚持——

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—

不是在夜空高挂着孤独的美光，

Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,

像那大自然的坚忍不眠的隐士，

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

睁开着一双眼睑永远在守望

Like nature's patient, sleepless eremite ,

动荡的海水如教士那样工作，

The moving waters at their priestlike task

绕地上人类的涯岸作涤净的洗礼，

Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

或者凝视着白雪初次降落，

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

面具般轻轻戴上高山和大地——

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;

不是这样，——但依然坚持不变：

No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable ,

枕在我爱人 的正在成熟的胸脯上，

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

以便感到它柔和的起伏，永远，

To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,

永远清醒地感到那甜蜜的动荡；

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

永远倾听她温柔地呼吸不止，

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

就这样永远活下去——或昏醉而死。

And so live ever—or else swoon to death.