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第11章 生日

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A Birthday

[英]克里斯蒂娜·乔治娜·罗塞蒂

Christina Georgina Rossetti

我的心像一只歌唱的鸟儿,

居住在溪流的陡坡上面;

我的心像一棵苹果树,

累累的果实把枝条压弯;

我的心像一只色彩斑斓的贝壳,

漂流在平静的海洋;

我的心比这—切都快乐,

因为我的爱来到我的身旁。

为我造一座丝绒铺就的高台,

挂上毛皮和紫色的饰品;

雕刻出鸽子和石榴树的图案,

还有长着一百只眼睛的孔雀;

用金色和银色的葡萄来装点,

再饰以叶子和银色的鸢尾花;

因为我的新生已经来临,

我的爱来到我的身旁。

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.