Life and Death
——Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none;
for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved,
and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks,
and I am ready to depart.
生與死
翻譯:楊絳
我和誰都不爭,
和誰爭我都不屑;
我愛大自然,
其次就是藝術;
我雙手烤著,
生命之火取暖;
火萎了,
我也準備走了。