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Thy Godlike crime was to be kind,
To render with thy precepts less
The sum of human wretchedness,
And strengthen Man with his own mind;
But baffled as thou wert from high,
Still in thy patient energy,
In the endurance, and repulse
Of thine impenetrable spirit,
Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse,
A mighty lesson we inherit:
Thou art a symbol and a sign
To mortals of their fate and force;
Like thee, Man is in part divine,
A troubled stream from a pure source;
And Man in portions can foresee
His own funereal destiny;
His wretchedness, and his resistance,
And his sad unallied existence:
To which his Spirit may oppose
Itself—and equal to all woes,
And a firm will, and a deep sense,
Which even in torture can descry
Its own concenter'd recompense,
Triumphant where it dares defy,
And making Death a Victory.

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你神圣的罪恶是心肠太好，
你要以你的教训
减轻人类的苦难，
并且振奋起人类的精神；
尽管上天与你为敌，
但你顽强的毅力，
你那坚不可摧的灵魂，
天上和人间的暴风雨
又怎能摧毁你的坚忍和勇敢！
我们得到了一个有力的教训：
你是一个象征，一个标记，
象征着人类的命运和力量；
和你一样，人类也有神圣的一部分，
污浊的河流来自圣洁的源头；
人也能预见一部分，
自己凄惨的命运；
他的悲惨，他的坚强，
和他孤立无援的存在：
这一切反而使他振奋，
并唤起他顽抗的精神
使他与不幸相持对立，
坚定的意志，深刻的认知；
即使在痛苦中，他能看到
其中也有它凝聚的回报，
把死亡变成胜利。