美國語文第五冊 第261期：在搖籃中安睡（01）
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
時光穿梭，飛快地回到從前，
Make me a child again, just for to-night!
今晚星光，我變成可愛孩子，
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
媽媽，從無法應答的彼岸歸來，
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
一如往昔，將我摟抱入懷。
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
輕輕地， 她吻著我的前額皺紋，
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;
隨后撫平，我鬢角上初現白發(fā)，
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;—
滿心憐愛，默默地看我安睡——
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
媽媽呵，慢慢蕩起搖籃，讓我入眠！
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
時光穿梭，追溯往昔歲月，
I am so weary of toil and of tears;
難以應對， 生活困厄操勞，
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain;
嘔心瀝血，汗水無法兌現，
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
不再憂傷，今晚我又回到童年！
I have grown weary of dust and decay,—
滾滾紅塵，行尸走肉的皮囊，
Weary of flinging my soul wealth away;
迷惘不安，如何失去信念？
Weary of sowing for others to reap;—
世事喧囂，充滿爾虞我詐，
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
媽媽呵，慢慢蕩起搖籃，讓我入眠！
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,
我早已，厭倦世俗的虛偽卑鄙，
Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you!
哦，媽媽，我從心底呼喚你！
Many a summer the grass has grown green,
夏夜星落，那片滴翠的草地，
Blossomed and faded, our faces between:
母女笑容，跌落在花開花落之間，
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
難以抑制，我多年的思念苦楚，
Long I to-night for your presence again.
哦，媽媽，渴望你今晚出現。
Come from the silence so long and so deep;—
回來吧，你在寂寞黑暗消失很久，
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
媽媽呵，慢慢蕩起搖籃，讓我入眠！
