The Garden of Love
                                   William Blake (1757-1827)

    I went to the Garden of Love,
    And saw what I never had seen:
    A Chapel was built in the midst,
    Where I used to play on the green.


    And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
    And "Thou shalt not" writ over the door;
    So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
    That so many sweet flowers bore,


    And I saw it was filled with graves,
    And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
    And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
    And binding with briars my joys & desires.

我前往爱的花园，
目睹了我前所未见：
殡仪馆矗立其中，
那里是我曾嬉戏的草地。

而殡仪馆的大门紧闭，
门上写着'行人止步'；
我只好转向爱的花园，
那里曾有无数美丽鲜花盛开，

映入眼帘的却是遍地坟茔，
墓碑取代了鲜花绽放：
黑袍牧师们来回穿行，
用荆棘捆绑起我的欢乐和欲望。

        William Blake英国诗人、画家、以及雕刻家。这位死去半个世纪后因叶芝（William Butler Yeats，1865-1939）对其文集的整理才被世人熟知的诗人，其诗句简洁唯美而深刻，具有神启式的画面感，又因其诗歌富有神奇的想象力而被奉为超现实主义的鼻祖。作品集《Poems of William Blake》包含了他的著作『Songs of Innocence』、『Songs of Experience』及『The Book of Thel』。