括號內的 是我猜的]
                                   一
I cannot live with You --            我不能和你一起生活
It would be Life --                  因為那會是人生
And Life is over there --            而人生應該在別的地方
Behind the Shelf
                                     (它應該在好像是在被家庭主婦
The Sexton keeps the Key to --        遺落遺忘在一個儲櫃裡面的
Putting up                            一個瓷製的杯子
Our Life -- His Porcelain --          有的放舊了會有古色古香
Like a Cup --                         甚至有裂痕
                                      而新的會比較討好)
Discarded of the Housewife --
Quaint -- or Broke --
A newer Sevres pleases --
Old Ones crack --
                                    二
I could not die -- with You --        我也不能和你一起死亡
For One must wait                     因為要有一位
To shut the Other's Gaze down --      來為另一位合上雙眼
You -- could not --                   我知道你不能

And I -- Could I stand by             (可是當我要為你合上雙眼時
And see You -- freeze --               看著你冷冰冰的屍體
Without my Right of Frost --           我不認為我可以忍受那
Death's privilege?                     冰霜死亡的特權)
                                     三
Nor could I rise -- with You --        我也不能和妳一起死而復生
Because Your Face                      因為你的臉
Would put out Jesus' --                一定會遮蔽耶穌的臉
That New Grace                         而新的恩寵

Glow plain -- and foreign              (將會變得平傭變得陌生
On my homesick Eye --                   而我的眼裡會想念原來的家
Except that You than He                 而你會離耶穌更近)
Shone closer by --

They'd judge Us -- How --              它們會審判我們
For You -- served Heaven -- You know,  (可能你會上天堂而我不會
Or sought to --                         而我可能沒有眼睛可以留給這樂園了)
I could not --

Because You saturated Sight --
And I had no more Eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise

And were You lost, I would be --
Though My Name
Rang loudest
On the Heavenly fame --
                                        (如果是你下地獄
And were You -- saved --                 對我來說沒有你的地方
And I -- condemned to be                 就是地獄)
Where You were not --
That self -- were Hell to Me --

                               (末段)四
So We must meet apart --               於是我們必須分別兩地相會
You there -- I -- here --              你在那邊我在這邊
With just the Door ajar                隔著一道門縫
That Oceans are -- and Prayer --       隔著許多的海洋 - 還有祈禱
And that White Sustenance --           還有那白色的口糧
Despair --                             絕望....

                                       Mondo 譯