When the flowers come again, mother, beneath the waning light,

母亲啊，当鲜花再次盛开，昏暗渐弱的光线之下，

You'll never see me more, in the long gray fields at night;

漫长的暗夜里，你再也见不到我的容颜；

You'll bury me, my mother, just beneath the hawthorn shade,

我的母亲啊，就把我埋葬在山楂树的阴凉之下，

And you'll come sometimes and see me where I am lowly laid.

时而你会来看我，就到我的埋葬之地。

I have been wild and wayward, but you'll forgive me now;

我一直狂野任性，但是现在你要原谅我；

You'll kiss me, my own mother, and forgive me ere I go:

我的母亲啊，在我离别之前，你会亲吻我，原谅我：

Nay, nay, you must not weep, nor let your grief be wild;

不要，不要，你切不可哭泣，也不可悲伤过度；

You should not fret for me, mother,—you have another child.

母亲，你不应为我烦恼，——你还有另一个孩子。

Good night, good night: when I have said good night for ever-more,

晚安，晚安：我说晚安就是在说永远再见了，

And you see me carried out from the threshold of the door,

你看到我从门口悄悄离去，

Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green;—

直到我的墓穴上长出青草，才可以让艾菲来看我；——

 

She'll be a better child to you then ever I have been.

她会是一个比我更为乖巧的孩子。

She'll find my garden tools upon the granary floor;

她会在谷仓的地上找到我的园艺工具；

Let her take 'em; they are hers—I shall never garden more.

让她拿去用吧；现在这些工具是她的了——我再也不会种花植草了。

But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set

但是当我离去，告诉她，好好培育我种在客厅窗户边的玫瑰花丛，

About the parlour window, and the box of mignonette.

还有那一盒木犀草。

Good night, sweet mother! call me before the day is born;

晚安了，母亲！天亮之前叫我啊；

All night I lie awake, but I fall asleep at morn;

一整夜我彻夜难眠，可我会在清晨沉沉入眠；

But I would see the sun rise upon the glad New Year;

但是我会在喜气洋洋的新年里看到日出；

So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear.

亲爱的母亲，如果你清晨醒来，早点叫我，一定早点叫我。

—Tennyson

——坦尼森