隱秘的愛

                                     ——約翰·克利爾

I met her in the greenest dells,

where dewdrops pearl the wood bluebells;

the lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye,

the bee kissed and went singing by,

a sunbeam found a passage there,

a gold chain round her neck so fair;

as secret as the wild bee’s song,

she lay there all the summer long.

I hid my love in field and town,

till e’en the breeze would knock me down,

the bees seemed singing ballads o’er,

the fly’s bass turned a lion’s roar;

and even silence found a tongue,

to haunt me all the summer long;

the riddle nature could not prove,

was nothing else but secret love.

我們相逢在最蔥郁的幽谷，

藍(lán)鈴花上的露水好似珍珠；

迷途的風(fēng)親過她湛藍(lán)的明眸，

留下吻的蜜蜂歌唱著飛走，

一束陽光找到歸宿，

成為她美頸上的金色項鏈；

隱秘如野蜂的歌聲，

整個夏天她靜居我心。

我把愛意藏遍原野和小鎮(zhèn)，

直到微風(fēng)都能將我吹倒；

蜜蜂似乎唱起小調(diào)，

飛蟲的低吟也像獅吼；

連寂靜都會說話，

困擾我整個夏天；

天地間唯獨無法解釋的謎團(tuán)，

只有這隱秘的愛。