A Farewel to Worldly Joyes 永別了,塵世的歡樂

Anne Killigrew 安妮·基麗格魯

Farewel to Unsubstantial Joyes,

Ye Gilded Nothings,Gaudy Toyes,

Too long ye have my Soul misled,

Too long with Aiery Diet fed:

But now my Heart ye shall no more

Deceive,as you have heretofore:

for when I hear such Sirens sing,

Like lthica's fore-warned King,

With prudent Resolution I

Will so my Will and Fancy tye,

That stronger to the Mast not he,

Than I to Reason bound will be:

And though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear,

Unhurt,like him,your Charms I'll hear.

永別了,空洞的歡樂,你是

涂金的虛無,華麗的玩具,

太久,你使我的靈魂迷途,

太久,給它空氣般的米黍:

但是我的心不會再被你迷惑,

雖然以前你曾經迷惑過我:

當我聽到這樣的塞壬歌唱,

像伊斯卡受到警告的國王,

以謹慎克制的決心,我將

堅決縛住我的意志和想像,

比他把自己縛于桅桿更緊,

我將使自己鉗制于理性:

雖然你的巫術撞擊我的耳鼓,

無動于衷,像他,我傾聽你的法術