"And thou didst plead so bravely in her behalf and mine!"" answered the mother. ""I remember it; and so shall little Pearl. Fear nothing! She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!"

"那次你大胆地为了她和我进行了申辩!"做母亲的回答。"我记得清清楚楚,小珠儿也会记得的。别怕!她开头也许会认生、害躁,但很快就会爱起你来的!"

She didst seem excited,but this was a business deal,and he could not expect her to place all her cards down on the table.

她似乎并不激动,但这是生意上的交易,他不能指望她会和盘托出。

When the sob took it, thy divinest Art's;Own instrument didst drop down at thy foot

哭泣,你却叫神的最尊贵的乐器;掉在脚下,倾听我那夹杂在泪珠里的

Keep, likewise, mine! There are none in this land that know me. Breathe not, to any human soul, that thou didst ever call me husband!

那就也为我保密吧!这地方没人认识我。绝对不要对任何人露一点口风,说我曾经是你的丈夫?

Thou mayest conceal it, too, from the ministers and magistrates, even as thou didst this day, when they sought to wrench the name out of thy heart, and give thee a partner on thy pedestal.

你也可以对那些牧师和大人们掩饰你的秘密,即使在他们象今天所作的那样,竭力想把那人的名字从你心中挤轧出来,让你们结伴示众的时候,也是枉然。

deuteronomy 26-15: "Look down from thy holy habitation, from Heaven, and bless thy people Israel and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey."

申命记二十六章15节:"求你从天上你的圣所垂看,赐福给你的百姓以色列与你所赐给我们的地,就是你向我们列祖起誓赐我们流奶与蜜之地。"

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams,

是你,你将蓝色的地中海唤醒,而它曾经昏睡了一整个夏天,被澄澈水流的回旋催眠入梦

He sent us all into this world. He sent even me, thy mother. Then, much more, thee! Or, if not, thou strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come?

我们所有的人都是他送到这世上来的。连我--你妈妈,都是他送来的。就更不用说你了!要不是这样,你这个怪里怪气的小妖精似的孩子是从哪儿来的?

My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring;And let it drop adown thy calmly great

我这颗沉甸甸的心。可是你,;你当真命令我捧着它,投到

Their vanishing eyes. Then THOU didst com ... to be

消歇,而我也在那些逐渐隐灭的;眸子下头晕眼花。于是,亲爱的

-in the eyes of him whom thou didst call thy husband-in the eyes of yonder child! And, that thou mayest live, take off this draught.

--在这个孩子的眼前,承受你注定的命运吧!那么,为了你可以活下去,把这药吃下去。"

Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

（细拉）你以江河分开大地。

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

法老就召了亚伯兰来，说，你这向我作的是什么事呢，为什么没有告诉我她是你的妻子，

So didst thou travel on life's common way, (e)

你这样走过生命的普通道路，

By thy first step awry, thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity.

由于第一步走歪了，你就种下了邪恶的胚胎；但自从那时起，它也就成了一种阴暗的必然。