约翰·邓恩诗歌精选16首｜有人比我更深地发掘爱之矿，幸福在其中藏(15)

它们之间亦有差异，正如
空气与天使的纯洁并不一致，
男人之欢与女人之爱也永将如此。
得一忘二 译
Aire and Angels
John Donne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame,
Angells affect us oft, and worship’d bee;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
But since my soule, whose child love is,
Takes limes of flesh, and else could nothing doe,
More subtile than the parent is,
Love must not be, but take a body too,
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love aske, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fixe itselfe in thy lip, eye, and brow.
Whilst thus to ballast love, I thought,
And so more steddily to have gone,
With wares which would sinke admiration,
I saw, I had love’s pinnace overfraught,
Ev’ry thy haire for love to work upon
Is much too much, some fitter must be sought;
For, nor in nothing, nor in things
Extreme, and scatt’ring bright, can love inhere;