Ⅵ Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going out in Town in the Spring

春天出城的美麗少女之歌

Ask not the cause why sullen Spring

別問我為何春天久寂

So long delays her flowers to bear;

耽擱花兒綻放

Why warbling birds forget to sing,

為何鳥兒遺忘顫鳴

And winter storms invert the year:

北風呼嘯終年盤踞不去

Chloris is gone; and fate provides

克羅理絲雖不在，命運之神

To make it Spring where she resides.

將春意在其駐腳處蔓延

Chloris is gone, the cruel fair;

克羅理絲已不在，這殘酷的女神

She cast not back a pitying eye:

吝惜投以悲憫的眼神

But left her lover in despair

徒留摯愛(花和鳥)於絕境

To sigh, to languish, and to die:

嘆息，凋零，死亡

Ah! how can those fair eyes endure

喔！那美麗雙眼怎堪

To give the wounds they will not cure!

施予永難癒合的創傷！

Great God of Love, why hast thou made

全能的愛神，為何

A face that can all hearts command,

塑造這張支配萬物心靈的臉

That all religions can invade,

干預各個信仰

And change the laws of every land?

改變一切法則？

Where thou hadst plac'd such power before,

在你賜與她力量前

Thou shouldst have made her mercy more.

因讓她多點仁慈

When Chloris to the temple comes,

克羅理絲來到神殿時

Adoring crowds before her fall;

崇仰者拜倒她面前

She can restore the dead from tombs

她能起死回生

And every life but mine recall.

除我之外

I only am by Love design'd

僅有滿懷愛的我

To be the victim for mankind.

因人類而犧牲