一次失約的雙語美文
A Broken Appointment
by Thomas Hardy
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure lovingkindness' sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum，
You did not come.
You love me not.
And love alone can lend you loyalty:
——I know and knew it. But, unto the store
Of human deeds divine in all but name，
Was it not worth a little hour or more
To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came
To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be
You love me not.
一次失約
by 托馬斯·哈代
你沒有來，
而時光卻沙沙地流去，使我發呆。
倒不是惋惜失掉了相見的'甜蜜，
是因為我由此看出你的天性，
缺乏那種最高的憐憫——儘管不樂意，
出於純粹的仁慈也能成全別人，
當指盼的鐘點敲過，你沒有來，
我感到悲哀。
你並不愛我，
而只有愛情才能使你忠誠於我；
——我明白，早就明白。但費一兩小時，
使除名義外全然聖潔的人類行為，
又為何不增添一件好事：
你，作為一個女人，曾一度撫慰，
一個為時光折磨的男人，即便說，
你並不愛我。