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I Died For Beauty, but Was Scarce
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I Died For Beauty, But Was Scarce

 Poem 449
 
 

I died for beauty, but was scarce

 

Adjusted in the tomb,

 

when one who died for truth

 

In an adjoining room.

 

He questioned softly why l failed?

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"For beauty, I replied.

 

" And I for truth- themself are one-

 

We brethren are", he said.

 

And so, as kinsmen met a night

 

We talked between the rooms

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Until the moss had reached our lips

 

And covered up our names.

 

 
   
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beauty

(真、善、美乃人生追求的最高境界)。

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Adjusted 

適應。

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one who died for truth

為追求真理而犧牲的人 。

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adjoining room

鄰室(在其中)。

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questioned softly why l failed

輕輕的質問為何我失敗?

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themself are one-

truth和beauty原本是一件事(這是「似是而非」之語,因themself是單數",而動詞劫用多
數are)。

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brethren

brothers;兄弟之意。

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Until the moss...covered up our names

直到青苔長到我們的嘴巴上,而且覆蓋了我們的名字。意指我們被遺忘。

 
   
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