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生日

-Christina Georgina Rossetti

-克里斯蒂娜·乔治娜·罗塞蒂

My heart is like a singing bird

我的心像一只唱歌的鸟儿,

Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;

居住在溪流的陡坡上面;

My heart is like an apple-tree

我的心像一棵苹果树,

Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

累累的果实把枝条压弯;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

我的心像一只色彩斑斓的贝壳,

That paddles in a halcyon sea;

漂流在平静的海洋;

My heart is gladder than all these

我的心比这一切都快乐,

Because my love is come to me.

因为我的爱来到我的身边。

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

为我造一座丝绒铺就的高台,

Hang it with vair and purple dyes

挂上毛皮和紫色的饰品;

Carve it in doves and pomegranates

雕刻出鸽子和石榴树的图案,

And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

还有长着一百只眼睛的孔雀;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

用金色和银色的葡萄来装点,

In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

再饰以叶子和银色的百合花;

Because the birthday of my life

因为我的新生已经来临,

Is come, my love is come to me.

我的爱来到我的身边。