英漢對照|王爾德詩選：唉!

Hélas!

To drift with every passion till my soul

Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,

Is it for this that I have given away

Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?

Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll

Scrawled over on some boyish holiday

With idle songs for pipe and virelay,

Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

Surely there was a time I might have trod

The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance

Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God:

Is that time dead? lo! with a little rod

I did but touch the honey of romance—

And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

唉！

伴隨每一次激情而漂流，直到

我的靈魂變作豎琴任每陣清風撫弄，

莫非因為這個，我不得不放棄

我古老的智慧和嚴苛的節(jié)制？

我想我的生命是二度書寫的卷軸，

在稚氣的假日里被潦草地涂抹，

為笛管和古風寫就慵懶的歌曲，

只是它毀棄了整個生活的秘密。

確實有過一段時光，我走過

陽光普照的峰頂，而生命的不和諧音

清晰地撞擊琴弦，直抵上帝耳畔：

莫非那時光已死？噢！我只是

用一根嫩枝蘸取了浪漫傳奇的蜂蜜——

我就必須喪失一個靈魂的遺產(chǎn)？