白朗寧夫人抒情十四行詩集第十首EBB _Sonnets from the Portuguese_ No. X 不過只要是愛，是愛，可就是美，Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed 就值得你接受。你知道，愛就是火，And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, 火總是光明的，不問着火的是廟堂Let temple burn, or flax. And equal light 或者柴堆－－那棟梁還是荊榛在燒，Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed. 火焰里總跳得出同樣的光輝。當我And love is fire. And when I say at need 不由得傾吐出：“我愛你！”在你的眼裡，_I love thee ... mark! ... _I love thee_ -- in thy sight 那榮耀的瞬息，我忽然成了一尊金身，I stand transfigured, glorified aright, 感覺到有一道新吐的皓光從我天庭With conscience of the new rays that proceed 投向你臉上。是愛，就無所謂卑下，Out of my face toward thine. There's nothing low 即使是最微賤的在愛：那微賤的生命In love, when love the lowest: meanest creatures 獻愛給上帝，寬宏的上帝受了它、Who love God, God accepts while loving so. 又回賜給它愛。我那迸發的熱情And what I _feel_, across the inferior features 就象道光，通過我這陋質，昭示了Of what I _am_, doth flash itself, and show 愛的大手筆怎樣給造物潤色。How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.