有一天愛進入我的心里，

他是個憂傷、討厭的客人；

當他請求讓自己暫時停留，

我讓他休息并等等。

他用悲傷讓我難以入睡，

并用眼淚將我的夢想擾亂，

在我樂意唱歌的時候，

他用畏懼讓我閉口不言。

但是現在他已踏上旅程，

我卻懷念那帶著甜蜜的痛苦，

有時我在夜里祈求

他會再次來到我的住處。[1]

The Wayfarer

Love entered in my heart one day,

A sad,unwelcome guest;

But when he begged that he might stay,

I let him wait and rest.

He broke my sleep with sorrowing,

And shook my dreams with tears,

And when my heart was fain to sing,

He stilled its joy with fears.

But now that he has gone his way,

I miss the old sweet pain,

And sometimes in the night I pray

That he may come again.

注釋

[1]愛情是個神奇的東西，最初可能意識不到，當它離去時你可能會忽然意識到它出現了。于是，“我”竟希望最初那個討厭的客人再次到來！