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第11章 生日

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A Birthday

[英]克裏斯蒂娜·喬治娜·羅塞蒂

Christina Georgina Rossetti

我的心像一隻歌唱的鳥兒,

居住在溪流的陡坡上麵;

我的心像一棵蘋果樹,

累累的果實把枝條壓彎;

我的心像一隻色彩斑斕的貝殼,

漂流在平靜的海洋;

我的心比這—切都快樂,

因為我的愛來到我的身旁。

為我造一座絲絨鋪就的高台,

掛上毛皮和紫色的飾品;

雕刻出鴿子和石榴樹的圖案,

還有長著一百隻眼睛的孔雀;

用金色和銀色的葡萄來裝點,

再飾以葉子和銀色的鳶尾花;

因為我的新生已經來臨,

我的愛來到我的身旁。

My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a watered shoot;

My heart is like an apple tree

Whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

That paddles in a halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all these

Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

Carve it in doves and pomegranates

And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

In leaves and silver fleur-de-lys;

Because the birthday of my life

Is come, my love is come to me.