李敖譯詩二則

No Man is an Island - John Donne

No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were:
any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind,
and, therefore,
never send to know for whom the bells tolls;
it tolls for thee.

沒有人能自全，
沒有人是孤島，
每人都是大陸的一片，
要為本土應卯
那便是一塊土地，
那便是一方海角，
那便是一座莊園，
不論是你的、還是朋友的，
一旦海水沖走，
歐洲就要變小。
任何人的死亡，
都是我的減少，
作為人類的一員，
我與生靈共老。
喪鐘在為誰敲，
我本茫然不曉，
不為幽明永隔，
它正為你哀悼。

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To W.P - George Santayana

With you a part of me hath passed away;
For in the peopled forest of my mind ,
A tree made leafless by this wintry wind ,
Shall never don again its green array.
Chapel and fireside,country road and bay,
Have something of their friendliness resigned;
Another,if I would, I could not find ,
And I am grown much older in a day.
But yet I trdasure in my memory,
Your gift of charity and young heart's ease,
And the dear honour of your amity;
For these once mine, my life is rich with these.
And I scarce know which part may greater be --
What I keep of you , or you rob from me.

冬風掃葉時節，一樹蕭條如洗，
綠裝已卸，卸在我心裏。
我生命的一部分，已消亡
隨著你。
教堂、爐邊、郊路和港灣，
情味都今非昔比。
雖有餘情，也難追尋，
一日之間，我不知老了幾許？
你天性的善良、慈愛和輕快，
曾屬於我，跟我一起。
我不知道哪一部分多——
是你帶走的我，
還是我留下的你。