A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildy away.

And whisper to their souls to go,

Whilst some of their sad friends fo say

The breath goes now, and some say no:

So let us melt,and make noe noise,

No traer-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;

Twere profanation of our joys

To tell the laity our love.

節選 JOHN DONNE的 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

(試著解讀)

當好人輕輕地走了，

人們哀悼著他們的靈魂走了。

然而一些說是如此一些則否。

所以生命如此，就讓我們融為一體而不在有噪音。

沒有眼淚，也沒有劇烈的哀嘆聲。

這些都是我們歡樂的生活的玷汙。

告訴世俗的人們我們的愛吧 !

(獻給陷入愛的沉重沉思中的您們。)