Longing渴望

齐云

Longing

By Sara Tealsdale

I am not sorry for my soul
  That it must go unsatisfied,
     For it can live a thousand times,
  Eternity is deep and wide.

I am not sorry for my soul,
  But oh, my body that must go
     Back to a little drift of dust
  Without the joy it longed to know.

渴望

文/莎拉•蒂斯黛尔  译/齐云

我不为自己灵魂叹惋
      它必须离去纵然不满
因为永恒是又深又宽
      而它可以永恒地往返

我不为自己灵魂哀叹
      但长为肉身无穷遗憾
渴求的欢乐还未品尝
      就要化成了尘土若干

译后记：原诗四步抑扬，偶行韵。