原文 (英語)

By W.B. Yeats As for living, our servants will do that for us.—Villiers de L'Isle Adam. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept, and wondered why she had twice been carried away.—Leonardo da Vinci. My dear A.E.—I dedicate this book to you because, whether you think it well or ill written, you will sympathize with the sorrows and the ecsta