PhèdreHow vain and dull this common world must seemTo such a One as thou, who should'st have talkedAt Florence with Mirandola, or walkedThrough the cool olives of the Academe:Thou should'st have gathered reeds from a green streamFor Goat-foot Pan's shrill piping, and have playedWith the white girls in that Phæacian gladeWhere grave Odysseus wakened from his dream.

Ah!

surely once some urn of Attic clayHeld thy wan dust, and thou hast come againBack to this common world so dull and vain,For thou wert weary of the sunless day,The heavy fields of scentless asphodel,The loveless lips with which men kiss in Hell.

费德拉对你这样的人而言，这凡俗的世界多么无聊，多么沉闷，你应该在佛罗伦萨与米兰多拉对话，或者在学院散步，徜徉在清爽的橄榄树下，你应该在碧绿的小溪旁采摘芦管，让羊足潘神吹出笛音，与白肤少女在费阿克斯林中空地相互嬉戏，那里墓中的奥德修斯从长梦中醒来。

啊！

雅典的陶制古瓮必定盛放过你森白的骨灰，你将又一次降临这个无聊、沉闷的凡俗世界，你已经厌倦了这个隐晦的日子，厌倦了种满无味水仙的沉重田野，还有那地狱里接吻的无爱嘴唇。

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