Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Only until this cigarette is ended,
A little moment at the end of all,
While on the floor the quiet ashes fall,
And in the firelight to a lance extended,
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended,
The broken shadow dances on the wall,
I will permit my memory to recall
The vision of you, by all my dreams attended.
And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done.
Yours is a face of which I can forget
The color and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set.
祇有在这支煙燃盡之後
埃德娜·師文森特·米萊
只有在这支煙燃盡之後,
在結束的那小小的壹瞬,
灰燼悄然坠地。
在爐火的光裏,壹支長矛被光線延長,
爵士樂搖搖曳曳,融陘古怪的氣息,
破碎的影,在墻上來回舞動。
我會容許我的記憶喚醒妳的幻象,
那是我所有的夢造訪過的地方。
然後,就是永別了,好好告辭吧!夢已兆。
妳的臉,我是可以忘記的
妳的膚色,妳的閃光之處,身上的每個地方,都可忘卻,
但話语永不會褪去,微笑,至今尚在流連;
但在妳的時日裏,这個瞬間早已不臠
就像山坡上日光仍在,而太陽早已隱沒。
BGM-Sunsetz(by Cigarettes After Sex)