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Every corpse is a sphynx of immortality; here too on the black coffin the sphynx gave us no answer to what he who lay within had written two days before:
每一具尸体都是不朽的，我们永远也无法知晓躺在里面的那具尸体两天前所写下内容的答案：
"O mighty Death!
坚强的死神呵！
thy silence teaches nought,
你的沉默引起我们的害怕，
Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink;
教堂墓地的坟墓是您留下的唯一记号。
Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts?
难道我的灵魂已经从雅各的梯子跌下？
Do I instead of mounting only sink?
只能在死神的花园里变成荒草？
Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not,
世人看不见我们最大的悲凄！
Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes:
啊你！你是孤独的，一直到最后。
And for the sufferer there is nothing left
这颗心在世上所受到的压力，
But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies."
超过堆在你的棺材上的泥土！
Two figures were moving in the chamber.
这屋子里有两个人影在移动。
We knew them both; it was the fairy of Care, and the emissary of Fortune.
她们两人我们都认识：一位是忧虑的女神，一位是幸运的使者。
They both bent over the corpse.
她们在死人身上弯下腰来察看。
"Do you now see," said Care, "what happiness your Galoshes have brought to mankind?”
“你看到了吗？”忧虑的女神说，“你的套鞋带给了人间什么幸福？”
"To him, at least, who slumbers here, they have brought an imperishable blessing," answered the other.
“至少它把不朽的的好处带给了在这儿睡着的人。”幸运的使者说。
"Ah no!" replied Care. "He took his departure himself; he was not called away.
“哦，你错了！”忧虑的女神说，“他是自己去的，死神并没有召他去。
His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.
他的精神力量还不够强大，无法得到他命中注定要得到这些宝藏。
I will now confer a benefit on him."
我现在要帮他一点忙。”
And she took the Galoshes from his feet; his sleep of death was ended;
她从他的脚上取下套鞋；他的长眠结束了;
and he who had been thus called back again to life arose from his dread couch in all the vigor of youth.
那个曾经在鬼门关走了一趟的人被召唤回来，重获生机了。
Care vanished, and with her the Galoshes. She has no doubt taken them for herself, to keep them to all eternity.
忧虑的女神走了，那双套鞋也不见了；毫无疑问，她把它们带走了，永远封存。
