作者：Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth andheight
My soul can reach, when feeling out ofsight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive forright.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’sfaith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints.
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if Godchoose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
我是多么愛你？讓我細數端詳。
我愛你，深廣寬厚無可比擬。
我愛你，盡我靈魂之所及。
直至神靈無存，萬物無蹤。
我愛你日日夜夜而無盡期。
燦陽之下，燭影之中，晝夜、動靜皆需你。
我愛你，單純而專一，如同忘身以赴之大義。
我傾心愛你，何計身外之毀譽。
我愛你一片真情與摯意
遠勝赤子之真誠，舊恨之抑郁。
我愛你情深似海洋
豈顧及神賢與神邸。
于博愛，用生命，
微笑與哭啼，以我全身心愛你，如蒙神允許，
在那形銷骨化后，我會更愛你。
