为你读诗｜My Letters! all dead paper：我的信，缄默而苍白的纸张

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BGM：Song without Words in D Op.109—Jacqueline du Pré 

My Letters! All Dead Paper

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

我的信！全是悄无声息的纸张

伊丽莎白·芭蕾特·勃朗宁

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!

And yet they seem alive and quivering

Against my tremulous hands which loose the string

And let them drop down on my knee tonight.

This said—he wished to have me in his sight

Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring

To come and touch my hand. . . a simple thing,

Yes I wept for it—this . . . the paper's light. . .

Said,Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed

As if God's future thundered on my past.

This said,I am thine—and so its ink has paled

With lying at my heart that beat too fast.

And this . . . O Love, thy words have ill availed

If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!

我的信！全是悄无声息的纸张……缄默而苍白！

然而它们又似乎活生生地颤抖着

我用微颤的手解开那捆扎的丝带

今晚，让它们散落在我膝上

这封写着——他希望我停留在他视线里

一次，哪怕作为朋友：就这样锁定了一个春日

他来牵了我的手……一件简单平常的事

可我却为此哭泣——这封……轻飘飘的纸上

写着，亲爱的，我爱你；而我心头一沉，陷入畏惧

仿佛上帝雷鸣般怒斥我的过去

这封写着，我是你的——于是墨迹褪去颜色

紧贴着我怦然跳动的心

还有这封…爱啊，你的言词有什么神妙

如果，这封信上写的，我终于敢再次说出！