Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

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。 ——[英]蘭德（楊絳譯）