《向苦難中友人的告白》- 托馬斯·哈代

【Confessions To Friends In Distress】- ThomasHardy

「英國(guó)????/1840~1928」

盡管苦難尚未消退

自我暫別之后

我對(duì)你苦難的感受逐漸地弱了

我甚至流露出陽(yáng)光日子里并非嘲弄的微笑

我的冷漠也并非出自人性中的惡意

某種十分輕佻的念頭正在股長(zhǎng)

我不愿再對(duì)你的苦難爛熟于心

與你分擔(dān)五味雜陳

不過(guò)是在獨(dú)享我的悲天憫人

這輕佻的念頭如同烏云強(qiáng)盜

不法的身姿在洋流中肆意妄為

我良善古樸的心啊

誓愿驅(qū)趕這伙無(wú)理的盜賊

但

我的老友

云散賊逃

可這潛意識(shí)的老巢

讓我不絕悲從中來(lái)

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原文

《A Confession to a Friend in Trouble》

by ThomasHardy

Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less

Here, far away, than when I tarried near;

I even smile old smiles—with listlessness—

Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries mere.

A thought too strange to house within my brain

Haunting its outer precincts I discern:

—That I will not show zeal again to learn

Your griefs, and, sharing them, renew my pain. . . .

It goes, like murky bird or buccaneer

That shapes its lawless figure on the main,

And each new impulse tends to make outflee

The unseemly instinct that had lodgment here;

Yet, comrade old, can bitterer knowledge be

Than that, though banned, such instinct was in me!