勃朗宁夫人诗选第二首

勃朗宁夫人诗选第二首

然而在上帝的整个宇宙，只有三人听到了

你说的那句话，——除了

说话的你，听话的我，还有就是他——

上帝自己！我们中只有一人回答……

那就是上帝，……沉重的诅咒落在我的眼睑，

惩罚我再也不能看见你，……就算我即刻死去，

那死亡的分量压在我的眼上，也不可能比这诅咒的隔绝来得彻底。

噢，我的朋友，“不行”出自上帝之口，甚于千人万语！

——若非如此，

世人的俗语无法使我们分离，大海的波涛也不能改变我们，哪怕是狂风暴雨；

穿过三山五岳的藩篱，我们的双手也会相触一起，

哪怕远隔天涯，

我们也必以星辰为誓，紧紧偎依。

But only three in all God's universe

Have heard this word thou hast said, —Himself, beside

Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied

One of us... that was God, ...and laid the curse

So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce

My sight from seeing thee, —that if I had died,

The deathweights, placed there, would have signified

Less absolute exclusion. 'Nay' is worse

From God than from allothers, O my friend!

Men could not part us with their worldly jars,

Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;

Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:

And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,

We should but vow the faster for the stars.

诗歌摘自《勃朗宁夫人葡萄牙十四行诗》张媛译

勃朗宁夫人诗选第二首