Since There s No Help

Michael Drayton - Sonnet LXI: Since There's No Help 해석

1. 원문
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part,
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have giv'n him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.

2. Paraphrasing
Since nothing can be done to improve the situation, let's hurry to kiss and separate. Not that only, but also I have finished with you. You will meet me no more.
And I am glad, yes, I am glad with all my heart
That I myself can be free thus so completely from you.
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