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Holy Sonnet VII
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Holy Sonnet VII

 
 
 
 

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow

 

Your trumpets, angels; and arise, arise

 

From death, you numberless infinities

 

Of souls, and to you scattered bodies go;

 

All whom the flood did, and fire shall, o'erthrow,

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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,

 

Despair, low, chance hath slain, and you whose eyes

 

Shall behold god, and never taste death's woe.

 

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space;

 

For, if above all these, my sins abound,

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Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace

 

When we are there. Here on this lowly ground,

 

Teach me how to repent; for that's as good

 

As if Thou hadst sealed my pardon with Thy blood.

 
 
 
 

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corner                                        John Donne所想像的很 可能是舊地圖上向四方吹喇叭的天使們。“…I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth.

(Revelation vii, 1)

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You numberless infinities of souls,

infinite number of souls 無數的(死 者)靈魂。

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to your scattered bodies go    到離散四方 的軀體去。

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All whom the flood did and fire shall o'erthrow.

所有遭洪水 毀滅以及將被火死的人們,可能指諾亞的洪水與末日審判之烈火。Overthrow毀滅;did亦即overthrow.

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dearth                                          缺乏,可能指的是缺乏糧食。

age                                                      年老。

agues                                                 瘧疾,也可 能指的是一般疾病。

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chance                                      (惡)運。

slain                                                    slayp.p.,殺害。

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never taste deaths woe        不必經歷死亡的災難,所有好人從人間直接升天(見Matthew xvi 28, Mark ix, 1Luke ix, 27)。

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let…me mourn a space           讓我悔罪一 會兒。

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my sins abound                         我罪孽深重。

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abundance of Thy grace          你的大慈大悲。Thy指的是上 主。

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lowly ground                               低微的現世。

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repent                                          痛悔。

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thou hadst sealed my pardon with Thy blood.

以你的血表 明你對我的寬恕,意指耶穌被釘十字架上以求世人。

 
 
   


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