多恩｜離別辭：止悲懷

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
by John Donne (1572 – 1631)

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
猶似人善，靜而將休，
And whisper to their souls to go,
對魂耳語，離去莫留；
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
幾友傷悲，此語言說：
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
氣斷而去，幾友說否。

So let us melt, and make no noise,
消融我倆，別亦靜默，
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
淚不洪流，嘆不漩渦，
Twere profanation of our joys
否則褻瀆，喜悅共有，
To tell the laity our love.
昭告世俗，此情感受。

Moving of th earth brings harms and fears,
地有震動，招禍引憂，
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
人故衡量，意義探索；
But trepidation of the spheres,
天有震動，層層顫抖，
Though greater far, is innocent.
規模縱巨，卻無災禍。

Dull sublunary lovers love
月下塵愛，粗鄙甚多，
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
魂乃諸感，故難承受，
Absence, because it doth remove
不堪離別，因離而剝，
Those things which elemented it.
去情所生，奪情所活。

But we by a love so much refined,
然而吾情，世俗超脫，
That our selves know not what it is,
情為何物，竟難直說；
Inter-assured of the mind,
兩心交流，相印契默，
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
不憑眼唇，不繫手握。

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
靈魂我倆，一體命儔，
Though I must go, endure not yet
縱我須別，之所承受，
A breach, but an expansion,
並非裂口，而是再擴，
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
鍛如金箔，虛空纖薄。

If they be two, they are two so
兩魂若貳，視之為貳，
As stiff twin compasses are two;
牢如圓規，雙腳運作；
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
卿魂此腳，固而不露，
To move, but doth, if the other do.
其實在動，另腳若走。

And though it in the center sit,
縱當此腳，圓心座落，
Yet when the other far doth roam,
另腳則起，遠方漫遊，
It leans and hearkens after it,
前者倚靠，傾心於後，
And grows erect, as that comes home.
挺身當時，歸來後者。

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
如是有卿，終將對我，
Like th other foot, obliquely run;
我猶此腳，斜走圓周；
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
因卿堅守，此圓走過，
And makes me end where I begun.
返回最初，使我能收。

英文四音步抑揚格，漢語四字成雙。