栀子花（中英双语）

栀子花

Gardenia Flowers

作者｜白鹤清泉(Baihe Qingquan)

英译｜周柯楠(Zhou Kenan)

说着说着走着走着

While walking and speaking

你就谢了

You were gradually withering

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七月流火

In the heat of July

你端坐于岁月的杯中

You’re sitting in the cup of years

一片一片

Little by little

重新舒展花瓣

You have been stretching your petals again

而我已沉沦

While I have sunk to the bottom

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只记得

I still remember

你那圣洁的白

Your holy white

融化了我的视线

Melted my sight

你那浓郁的香

Your rich fragrance

迷醉了我的脚步

Intoxicated my footsteps

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曾经以为不会

I had never thought

因为命运的追索

Because of the pursuit of fate

走出你的世界

I would go out of your world

我的邈远无尘的诗句

My remote and dust-free verses

依然苍白了时光

Still paled the time

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四月远去

April is gone afar

忍住悲伤

I have to hold back my grief

那些尘封的足音

Those dusty footsteps

已成隔世沉香

Have become the fragrance of the past