雙語·當(dāng)呼吸化為空氣 獻(xiàn)給卡迪

獻(xiàn)給卡迪
For Cady

你在死亡中探究生命的意義，
You that seek what life is in death,

你見證生前的呼吸化作死后的空氣。
Now find it air that once was breath.

新人尚不可知，故舊早已逝去：
New names unknown, old names gone:

軀體有盡時，靈魂無絕期。
Till time end bodies, but souls none.

讀者啊，趁生之歡愉，快與時間同行，
Reader! then make time, while you be,

共赴永恒生命！
But steps to your eternity.

——福爾克·格萊維爾（布魯克伯爵）《卡伊利卡》
—Baron Brooke Fulke Greville, “Caelica 83”