米蕾诗二首
On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven By Edna St. Vincent Millay Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Reject me not into the world again. With you alone is excellence and peace, Mankind made plausible, his purpose plain. Enchanted in your air benign and shrewd, With limbs a-sprawl and empty faces pale, The spiteful and the stingy and the rude Sleep like the scullions in the fairy-tale. This moment is the best the world can give: The tranquil blossom on the tortured stem. Reject me not, sweet sounds; oh, let me live, Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them, A city spell-bound under the aging sun. Music my rampart, and my only one. 听一支贝多芬的交响曲 甜蜜美妙的音乐呀，请你别停！ 请别把我再一次推回那世界。 只有同你一起，才有美和安宁， 人间才可信，人的目标才明确。 你这迷人的曲调机灵又慈祥， 已经使怨恨、吝啬和粗暴睡着， 像童话中那些厨师的下手一样－－ 脸变得苍白木然，摊开着手脚。 这是世界上最最美好的时刻， 是苦难之树开出的宁静之花。 乐音哪，别抛弃我，让我活着， 活到我这城堡遇上末日而崩塌－－ 让它在摧人老的太阳下被迷住。 我呀，我唯有音乐这城墙防护。 （译者不详） ...