| 27 | "What ails thee, young One? what? Why pull so at thy cord? | 56 | 它是否还说了别的,不清楚; |
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| 28 | Is it not well with thee? well both for bed and board? | 57 | 瀑布轰鸣着,奔下石谷; |
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| 29 | Thy plot of grass is soft, and green as grass can be; | 58 | 别的我不曾听见; |
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| 30 | Rest, little young One, rest; what is't that aileth thee? | 59 | 野蔷薇在发抖;我真害怕—— |
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| 31 | | 60 | 惟恐它方才说的那番话 |
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| 32 | "What is it thou wouldst seek? What is wanting to thy heart? | 61 | 会是它最后遗言。 |
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| 33 | Thy limbs, are they not strong? And beautiful thou art: | | |
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| 34 | This grass is tender grass; these flowers they have no peers; | | |
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| 35 | And that green corn all day is rustling in thy ears! | | |
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| 36 | | | |
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| 37 | "If the sun be shining hot, do but stretch thy woollen chain, | | |
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| 38 | This beech is standing by, its covert thou canst gain; | | |
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| 39 | For rain and mountain-storms! the like thou need'st not fear, | | |
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| 40 | The rain and storm are things that scarcely can come here. | | |
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| 42 | "Rest, little young One, rest; thou hast forgot the day | | |
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| 43 | When my father found thee first in places far away; | | |
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| 44 | Many flocks were on the hills, but thou wert owned by none, | | |
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| 45 | And thy mother from thy side for evermore was gone. | | |
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| 46 | | | |
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| 47 | "He took thee in his arms, and in pity brought thee home: | | |
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| 48 | A blessèd day for thee! then whither wouldst thou roam? | | |
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| 49 | A faithful nurse thou hast; the dam that did thee yean | | |
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| 50 | Upon the mountain-tops no kinder could have been. | | |
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| 51 | | | |
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| 52 | "Thou know'st that twice a day I have brought thee in this can | | |
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| 53 | Fresh water from the brook, as clear as ever ran; | | |
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| 54 | And twice in the day, when the ground is wet with dew, | | |
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| 55 | I bring thee draughts of milk, warm milk it is and new. | | |
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| 56 | | | |
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| 57 | "Thy limbs will shortly be twice as stout as they are now, | | |
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| 58 | Then I'll yoke thee to my cart like a pony in the plough; | | |
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| 59 | My playmate thou shalt be; and when the wind is cold, | | |
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| 60 | Our hearth shall be thy bed, our house shall be thy fold. | | |
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| 61 | | | |
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| 62 | "It will not, will not rest! — Poor creature, can it be | | |
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| 63 | That 'tis thy mother's heart which is working so in thee? | | |
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| 64 | Things that I know not of belike to thee are dear, | | |
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| 65 | And dreams of things which thou canst neither see nor hear. | | |
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| 66 | | | |
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| 67 | "Alas, the mountain-tops that look so green and fair! | | |
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| 68 | I've heard of fearful winds and darkness that come there; | | |
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| 69 | The little brooks that seem all pastime and all play, | | |
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| 70 | When they are angry, roar like lions for their prey. | | |
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| 71 | | | |
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| 72 | "Here thou need'st not dread the raven in the sky; | | |
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| 73 | Night and day thou art safe, — our cottage is hard by. | | |
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| 74 | Why bleat so after me? Why pull so at thy chain? | | |
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| 75 | Sleep — and at break of day I will come to thee again!" | | |
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| 76 | | | |
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| 77 | — As homeward through the lane I went with lazy feet, | | |
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| 78 | This song to myself did I oftentimes repeat; | | |
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| 79 | And it seemed, as I retraced the ballad line by line, | | |
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| 80 | That but half of it was hers, and one half of it was mine. | | |
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| 81 | | | |
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| 82 | Again, and once again, did I repeat the song; | | |
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| 83 | "Nay," said I, "more than half to the damsel must belong, | | |
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| 84 | For she looked with such a look, and she spake with | | |
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| 85 | such a tone, | | |
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| 86 | That I almost received her heart into my own." | | |
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