雙語散文:我才智小愛情深
Bettine Brentano to Goethe
貝停-布倫塔諾致歌德
you.know my heart; you know that all there is desire, thought, boding and longing; you live among spirits and they give you divine wisdom. You must nourish me; you give all that in advance, which I do not understand to ask for.
你知道我的心；你知道我心裏惟有的願望、思念、預兆和渴求；你生活在幽靈之中，他們給你以神靈的智慧。你一定要給我以"營養"。你已經事先就給了我那些我不懂得去要求的東西。
My mind has a small embrace, my love a large one; you must bring them to a balance. Love cannot be quiet till the mind matches its growth; you are matched to my love; you are friendly, kind, and indulgent; let me know when my heart is off the balance. I understand your silent signs.
雖說我的才智小，但我的愛情甚深；你一定要平衡這兩方面。在理智跟不上愛情的發展時，愛不能平靜。你知道我有多愛你；你友善、溫存、寬厚。告訴我，什麼時候我的心失去了平衡。我懂得你那無聲的暗示。
A look from your eyes into mine, a kiss from you upon my lips, instructs me in all, what might seem delighted to learn, - to one who, like me, had experience from those. I am far from you; mine are become strange to me.
你映人我眼簾的凝睇、你印在我脣上的熱吻，向我說明了一切。這一切對於像我這樣的人，對於有過這方面感情經歷的人，看來似乎令人高興。你我天各一方，我給你的凝望和親吻對我已日益陌生。
I must ever return in thought to that hour when you hold me in the soft fold of your arm. Then I begin to weep, but the tears dry again unawares. Yes, he reaches with his love (thus I think) over to me in this concealed stillness; and should not I, with my eternal undisturbed loving, reach to him in the distance?
我無法不回想在你懷抱中的溫柔時刻。然後我便開始哭泣，又不知不覺眼淚已哭幹。是的，在深藏的靜謐中他對我一往情深(我如是想)。難道我就不應該藉着永不動搖的深情遙通心聲嗎?
Ah, conceive what my heart has to say to you; it overflows with soft sighs all whisper to you. Be my only happiness on earth your friendly will to me. O, dear friend, give me but a sign that you are conscious of me.
啊，你不知道我一心要對你說些什麼嗎？我要對你無限地輕聲嘆息，竊竊私語，讓感情沛溢。願我今生今世唯一的幸福就是你對我的無限的柔情。啊，親愛的朋友，只求你給我暗示，你心中只有我。
