因你遗忘了,
我们的深盟;
其他的人们,
成了我的友朋。
可是,当我直面死神的来临,
当我攀上睡梦的峰顶;
当我沉溺在歌酒的幻梦里,
忽然,又看见了你。
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附原玉:
A Deep-Sworn Vow
W. B. Yeats
Others, because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.
(1917)