英國語文第四冊(雙語):五月皇后(2)
When the flowers come again, mother, beneath the waning light,
母親啊，當鮮花再次盛開，昏暗漸弱的光線之下，
You'll never see me more, in the long gray fields at night;
漫長的暗夜里，你再也見不到我的容顏；
You'll bury me, my mother, just beneath the hawthorn shade,
我的母親啊，就把我埋葬在山楂樹的陰涼之下，
And you'll come sometimes and see me where I am lowly laid.
時而你會來看我，就到我的埋葬之地。
I have been wild and wayward, but you'll forgive me now;
我一直狂野任性，但是現(xiàn)在你要原諒我；
You'll kiss me, my own mother, and forgive me ere I go:
我的母親啊，在我離別之前，你會親吻我，原諒我：
Nay, nay, you must not weep, nor let your grief be wild;
不要，不要，你切不可哭泣，也不可悲傷過度；
You should not fret for me, mother,—you have another child.
母親，你不應為我煩惱，——你還有另一個孩子。
Good night, good night: when I have said good night for ever-more,
晚安，晚安：我說晚安就是在說永遠再見了，
And you see me carried out from the threshold of the door,
你看到我從門口悄悄離去，
Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green;—
直到我的墓穴上長出青草，才可以讓艾菲來看我；——
She'll be a better child to you then ever I have been.
她會是一個比我更為乖巧的孩子。
She'll find my garden tools upon the granary floor;
她會在谷倉的地上找到我的園藝工具；
Let her take 'em; they are hers—I shall never garden more.
讓她拿去用吧；現(xiàn)在這些工具是她的了——我再也不會種花植草了。
But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set
但是當我離去，告訴她，好好培育我種在客廳窗戶邊的玫瑰花叢，
About the parlour window, and the box of mignonette.
還有那一盒木犀草。
Good night, sweet mother! call me before the day is born;
晚安了，母親！天亮之前叫我??；
All night I lie awake, but I fall asleep at morn;
一整夜我徹夜難眠，可我會在清晨沉沉入眠；
But I would see the sun rise upon the glad New Year;
但是我會在喜氣洋洋的新年里看到日出；
So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear.
親愛的母親，如果你清晨醒來，早點叫我，一定早點叫我。
—Tennyson
——坦尼森
