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當時沒想到要找出原詩對照一番.....約15年之後補充：
翻譯也應該修正一下， 周先生有些地方太文了。
送忠樸及戴明之友：「茲疑不疑」
1998年 10月10日，出永和，秋高氣爽、走經台大校園，與一些樹打招呼。出新生南路側門。有一少年騎一新機車，同伴“品摸”其新造型、設計，極盡“疼愛”之能事，始知我已不年青。
進辦公室，寫點東西，從網路上知道到你的網站周年慶，並有「承諾的樂趣」。由於台大內把「五四」戲寫成「舞肆」，想起周策縱先生（周先生的《五四連動史》極有名，其實才富五車）的《棄園文粹》中，有篇（第九九則）談王靜安的「…頻摸索，且攀躋，千門萬戶是耶非？人問總是堪疑處，唯有茲疑不可疑。」周先生說此《鷓鴣天》甚莊嚴深遠。「此種無盡追求之意境，比靜安自己新云古今之成大事業大學問者必須之三種境界，皆更高深。」
周先生並以白郎寧（Robert Browing）《有終生的愛》(Love in a Life)──詩和之，轉錄之，作為我們這些中文網站開拓者的賀禮：
１
一間房又一間房，
我找遍了這院子，
我們同住在這裡。
心啊，一點也別怕，因為，心，你會找到她，
下次，會找到她本人！──不是她所留下來的
簾內的煩惱，床上的芳香！
那壁上的花環，經她拂拭後又開花了：
那兒明鏡對著她翠翹的搖顫也閃光了。
２
但是日子不斷消磨，
還是一條門又一條門？
我永遠摸索著新的命運──
從廂房到正廳，找遍了這大廈。
老是這麼個緣法！我進來時她偏出去了。
我尋了一整天，──別管吧！
可是你知道，天快黑了，──還有那麼多的房間要探索，
那麼多的私屋要尋找，那麼多的幽室要瀆求！
Love in a Life
I
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her—
Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew:
Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.
II
Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune—
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre.
Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest,—who cares?
But 'tis twilight, you see,—with such suites to explore,
Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!
*****
應該不是這首
Life In A Love
Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!
Robert Browning
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