A Birthday（在线收听）

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 with¹⁾thickset fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

That paddles in a²⁾halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all these

Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a ³)dais of silk and down;

Hang it with ⁴⁾vair and purple dyes;

Carve it with doves and ⁵⁾pomegranates

And ⁶⁾peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

In leaves and silver ⁷⁾fleurs-de-lys;

Because the birthday of my life

Is come, my love is come to me.CE

03、生日

我的心像只鸣啼的小鸟

在柔润的枝条上筑着巢；

我的心像棵苹果树

累累的硕果压弯了腰；

我的心像个虹彩的贝壳

在平静的海上轻轻荡漾；

我的心比这些还更欢畅

因为我的爱情已经来到。

为我造一座丝绒的讲坛

用金色和紫色颜料涂染；

在上面雕刻鸽子和石榴

还有孔雀长着一百只眼；

再用金银葡萄把它妆扮

树叶和鹫尾草银光闪闪；

因为我的生日已经来临，

因为我的爱情已经来到。CE