唐詩三百首英譯 元稹：遣悲懷之三

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元稹

遣悲懷之三

閑坐悲君亦自悲， 百年都是幾多時？

鄧攸無子尋知命， 潘嶽悼亡猶費詞。

同穴窅冥何所望？ 他生緣會更難期。

惟將終夜長開眼， 報答平生未展眉。

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Yuan Zhen

AN ELEGY III

I sit here alone， mourning for us both.

How many years do I lack now of my threescore and ten？

There have been better men than I to whom heaven denied a son，

There was a poet better than I whose dead wife could not hear him.

What have I to hope for in the darkness of our tomb？

You and I had little faith in a meeting after death-

Yet my open eyes can see all night

That lifelong trouble of your brow.