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< >■The Flea</P>
<> John Donne</P>
<><br>Mark but this flea, and mark in this,<br>How little that which thou deniest me is;<br>Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee,<br>And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;<br>Thou knowst that this cannot be said<br>A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead,<br> Yet this enjoys before it woo,<br> And pampered swells with one blood made of two,<br> And this, alas, is more than we would do.</P>
<><br>Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,<br>Where we almost, nay more than married are.<br>This flea is you and I, and this<br>Our marriage bed and marriage temple is;<br>Though parents grudge, and you, we are met,<br>And cloistered in these living walls of jet.<br> Though use make you apt to kill me,<br> Let not to that, self-murder added be,<br> And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.</P>
<><br>Cruel and sudden, hast thou since<br>urpled thy nail in blood of innocence?<br>Wherein could this flea guilty be,<br>Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?<br>Yet thou triumphst, and sayst that thou<br>Findst not thy self nor me the weaker now;<br> Tis true; then learn how false fears be:<br> Just so much honor, when thou yieldst to me,<br> Will waste, as this fleas death took life from thee.<br> (1633)</P>
<>■跳蚤<br> <br>约翰·邓恩 李丽琴译</P>
<><br>看呀，这只跳蚤，叮在这里，<br>你对我的拒绝多么微不足道；<br>它先叮我，现在又叮你，<br>我们的血液在它体内溶和；<br>你知道这是不能言说的<br>罪恶、羞耻、贞操的丢失，<br>它没有向我们请求就得到享受，<br>饱餐了我们的血滴后大腹便便，<br>这种享受我们无能企及。</P>
<><br>住手，一只跳蚤，三条生命啊，<br>它的身体不只是见证我们的婚约。<br>还是你和我，我们的婚床，婚姻的殿堂；<br>父母怨恨，你不情愿，我们还是相遇，<br>并躲藏在黝黑的有生命的墙院里。<br>尽管你会习惯地拍死跳蚤，<br>千万别，这会杀了我，也增加你的自杀之罪，<br>杀害三条生命会亵渎神灵。</P>
<><br>多么残忍，你毫无犹豫<br>用无辜的鲜血染红自己的指甲？<br>它不过吸了你一滴血<br>罪不至死啊？<br>你却以胜利者的口吻说<br>你我并没有因失血而有些虚弱；<br>的确，担心不过是虚惊一场：<br>接受我的爱，<br>你的名誉不会有丝毫损失，<br>就象跳蚤之死不会让你的生命有所损失。<br></P>
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