我有過的陣陣奇思異緒

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作者： 威廉．華茲華斯（William Wordsworth）
譯者： 陳杪

我有過的陣陣奇思異緒：

我會敢於述說，

但僅在愛人的耳畔絮語，

曾降臨我身上的事。

當時我愛的她每天都如

六月的薔薇鮮麗，

我蜿蜒地走向她的小屋，

在傍晚的月光底。

 

眺望月亮我目不轉睛，

縱橫遼闊的平蕪；

加快步伐的我的馬兒挨近，

我那些心愛的小路。

現在我們到達小果園；

又登上山崗之際，

那輪下沉的月朝露茜床前

接近，愈靠愈近。

置身一場甜蜜的睡夢是

大自然最仁慈福佑！

而我兩眼始終一直注視

徐徐落下的月。

我的馬兒繼續行進；蹄接蹄，

牠抬腿，從不停息；

當落到小屋屋頂的背後時，

一霎，皎潔的月墜下。

多麼傻痴的念頭會禁不住

溜進戀人的頭腦！

「天呀！」我朝自己驚呼，

「萬一露茜死掉呢？！」

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原文：


"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"

-- by William Wordsworth

(Published in Lyrical Ballads (2nd Ed.), 1800)

Strange fits of passion have I known:

And I will dare to tell,

But in the Lover's ear alone,

What once to me befell.

When she I loved looked every day

Fresh as a rose in June,

I to her cottage bent my way,

Beneath an evening moon.

Upon the moon I fixed my eye,

All over the wide lea;

With quickening pace my horse drew nigh

Those paths so dear to me.

And now we reached the orchard-plot;

And, as we climbed the hill,

The sinking moon to Lucy's cot

Came near, and nearer still.

In one of those sweet dreams I slept,

Kind Nature's gentlest boon!

And all the while my eyes I kept

On the descending moon.

My horse moved on; hoof after hoof

He raised, and never stopped:

When down behind the cottage roof,

At once, the bright moon dropped.

What fond and wayward thoughts will slide

Into a Lover's head!

"O mercy!" to myself I cried,

"If Lucy should be dead!"