94
诚哉，诚哉，我久已立誓忏悔——
但当我立誓时我是清醒耶非？
渐渐地渐渐地春又来了，
蔷薇在我手中时一线的悔心又断了。
XCIV
Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before
I swore—but was I sober when I swore?
And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
95
酒便是我的叛徒，
屡次把我“荣名的衣裳”剥去——
剥去罢，我不解卖酒之家，
何故把酒来换去半价的敝屣。
XCV
And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour—Well,
I wonder often what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
[注释]本节初稿有误，经闻君指出，今改正。末二句直译当为“我不解卖酒的买什么东西有他卖的货物一半贵重”。
96
但是，啊，奈阳春要和蔷薇消逝！
甘芳的青年时代的简篇要闭！
花枝里唱着歌的黄莺儿，啊，
谁知他飞自何来，又将飞向何去！
XCVI
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the branches sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
——作者：奥马.海亚姆，郭沫若(中文)译，菲茨杰拉德(英语)译
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