My birthday 生日

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 thickset 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 coming to me.

我的心像只鸣啼的小鸟

在柔润的技条上筑着巢;

我的心像棵苹果树

被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。

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

　　

Carve it with doves and pomegranates

And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

Because the birthday of my life is coming,

My love is coming to me.

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。

※本文作者：佚名※