真好玩！真好玩！
如果我輸，無非貧窮！
可貧窮的我
情願孤注一擲；
已經贏了！啊！別猶豫，
勝利在這邊！
生非生，死非死！
福非福，呼吸非呼吸！
如果，我真的失敗，
至少會知道連最糟糕的也甜蜜。
敗無非就是敗，
沒有更令人沮喪的事！
如果我贏了 - 哦，海上的槍，
哦，尖塔的鐘，
首先慢慢回味一遍！
因為天堂是完全不同的
另一種猜想，突然清醒後，
我也許會震驚異常！
（老哈譯注：海上的槍，海盜；尖塔里的鐘，教堂召集訊號。二者皆具有權威意味。）
’T IS so much joy! ’T is so much joy!
If I should fail, what poverty!
And yet, as poor as I
Have ventured all upon a throw;
Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
This side the victory!
Life is but life, and death but death!
Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
And if, indeed, I fail,
At least to know the worst is sweet.
Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can prevail!
And if I gain,—oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the steeples be,
At first repeat it slow!
For heaven is a different thing
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o’erwhelm me so!
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