哀希臘

　　拜倫

　　希臘群島呵，美麗的希臘群島！

　　火熱的薩弗在這里唱過戀歌；

　　在這里，戰爭與和平的藝術并興，

　　狄洛斯崛起，阿波羅躍出海面！

　　永恒的夏天還把海島鍍成金，

　　可是除了太陽，一切已經消沉。

　　開奧的繆斯，蒂奧的繆斯，

　　那英雄的豎琴，戀人的琵琶，

　　原在你的岸上博得了聲譽，

　　而今在這發源地反倒喑啞；

　　呵，那歌聲已遠遠向西流傳，

　　遠超過你祖先的“海島樂園”。

　　起伏的山巒望著馬拉松－

　　馬拉松望著茫茫的海波；

　　我獨自在那里冥想一刻鐘，

　　夢想希臘仍舊自由而歡樂；

　　因為，當我在波斯墓上站立，

　　我不能想象自己是個奴隸。

　　don mclean – vincent

　　starry starry night

　　paint your palette blue and grey

　　look out on a summer's day

　　with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

　　shadows on the hills

　　sketch the trees and the daffodils

　　catch the breeze and the winter chills

　　in colors on the snowy linen land.

　　and now i understand what you tried to say to me

　　how you suffered for your sanity

　　how you tried to set them free.

　　they would not listen

　　they did not know how

　　perhaps they'll listen now.

　　starry starry night

　　flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze

　　swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in

　　vincent's eyes of china blue.

　　colors changing hue

　　morning fields of amber grain

　　weathered faces lined in pain

　　are smoothed beneath the artist's

　　loving hand.

　　and now i understand what you tried to say to me

　　how you suffered for your sanity

　　how you tried to set them free.

　　perhaps they'll listen now.

　　for they could not love you

　　but still your love was true

　　and when no hope was left in sight on that starry

　　starry night.

　　you took your life as lovers often do;

　　but i could have told you vincent

　　this world was never meant for one

　　as beautiful as you.

　　starry starry night

　　portraits hung in empty halls

　　frameless heads on nameless walls

　　with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.

　　like the stranger that you've met

　　the ragged men in ragged clothes

　　the silver thorn of bloddy rose

　　lie crushed and broken

　　on the virgin snow.

　　and now i think i know what you tried to say to me

　　how you suffered for your sanity

　　how you tried to set them free.

　　they would not listen

　　they're not list'ning still

　　perhaps they never will.