Two Years Later
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兩年以后
|
| Has no one said those daring |
沒人說過嗎，那些 |
| Kind eyes should be more learn'd? |
大膽而善意的眼睛藏著更多的學(xué)識(shí)？ |
| Or warned you how despairing |
也沒人警告過你嗎， |
| The moths are when they are burned? |
火焰中的飛蛾有多么絕望？ |
| I could have warned you;but you are young, |
我本可警告你的，但你太小， |
| So we speak a different tongue. |
我們操的是不同的語調(diào)。 |
| O you will take whatever's offered |
可你，卻會(huì)接受別人， |
| And dream that all the world's a friend, |
以為世上的人都是朋友， |
| Suffer as your mother suffered, |
遭受與你母親一般的磨難， |
| Be as broken in the end. |
也會(huì)如你母親一般最終的失落。 |
| But I am old and you are young, |
我老了，而你還小， |
| And I speak a barbarous tongue. |
我還操著粗俗的語調(diào)。 |
