十方：《莎士比亚十四行诗》 第153、154首
远山之巅，星穹之下。
邂逅君子，温其如玉。
译者：十方
《莎士比亚十四行诗》 第153、154首
153
小爱神放下火炬，酣然睡去，
月神的侍女趁此机会；
将他这屡屡激起爱火的火炬，
浸入山间冰冷的泉水；
借助这神圣的爱之火，
永不熄灭的温热令泉水沸腾；
将它变成了温泉浴场，人们还说，
它有奇效能治疗疑难杂症；
这火炬又在我情人眼里点燃，
小爱神要试验，将火炬碰触我胸口；
我而因此致病，只能求助温泉，
匆忙赶去，如行客般，急躁、忧愁；
然而却没有效果：能治好我的温泉，
只有重燃爱情火炬的我情人的眼。
Sonnet 153
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest,
But found no cure: the bath for my help lies
Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes
154
小爱神一次沉睡正酣，
将点燃爱欲的火炬放在身旁；
一群贞洁的仙女款款，
来过，那处女的纤掌；
最美的那个，将这火炬
温暖过无数爱心的火炬，带走；
于是这爱情之主，
的武装，就沦于那处女的纤纤素手；
她将火炬浸灭在附近冰冷的泉水，
泉水被爱之火燃至沸腾；
变成了温泉，为人们医治，
疾病，而我，你的仆人；
跑去温泉求治，才弄清：
爱火烧热了泉水，泉水冰冷不了爱情。
Sonnet 154
The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
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