"I Strove With None"/ Life and Death By Walter Savage Landor 1849

2001年9月，高齡90歲的楊絳捐贈北京清華大學成立「好讀書獎學金」 (可能是夫婦的稿費捐出) 。以英國詩人蘭德（Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864）的小詩《生與死》（Life and Death）幾明志--請注意此短詩的標點符號，我看過中文引用幾個版本：
採用 Wiki的：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Savage_Landor

 In 1849 he wrote a well-known epitaph for himself on his 74th birthday.

In Tom Wolfe's "A man in full", Landor's poem "I Strove with None" is mentioned in a discussion in location 8,893 (Kindle).

Landor's "I Strove with None" is also quoted in Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge."

In Josephine Pullein-Thompson's "Pony Club Team" the second novel in her "West Barsetshire Pony Club" series, Landor's "I Strove With None" is quoted by both Noel Kettering and Henry Thornton^[17]

Landor's 'I Strove with None' forms the chorus of the Zatopeks' song Death and the Hobo from their album, Damn Fool Music.

Life and Death ——W.S.Landor 楊絳 譯

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.

Nature I loved, and, next to nature, Art;

I warm'd both hands before the fire of Life;

It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

I strove with none,                    我與誰都不爭，

for none was worth my strife；    與誰爭我都不屑

Nature I loved,                          我愛大自然，

and next to nature, art;             其次就是藝術；

I warmed both hands                 我雙手烤著

before the fire of life;                生命之火取暖;

It sinks,                                   火萎了，

and I am ready to depart.           我願悄然長逝 

我和誰都不爭，和誰爭我都不屑；
我愛大自然， 其次就是藝術；
我雙手烤著，生命之火取暖；
火萎了，我也準備走了。
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.