美国语文第五册第261期:在摇篮中安睡(1)（打印版）

　　Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, 时光穿梭，飞快地回到从前，

　　Make me a child again, just for to-night! 今晚星光，我变成可爱孩子，

　　Mother, come back from the echoless shore, 妈妈，从无法应答的彼岸归来，

　　Take me again to your heart as of yore; 一如往昔，将我搂抱入怀。

　　Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, 轻轻地，她吻着我的前额皱纹，

　　Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; 随后抚平，我鬓角上初现白发，

　　Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; 满心怜爱，默默地看我安睡——

　　Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep! 妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！

　　Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! 时光穿梭，追溯往昔岁月，

　　I am so weary of toil and of tears; 难以应对，生活困厄操劳，

　　Toil without recompense, tears all in vain; 呕心沥血，汗水无法兑现，

　　Take them, and give me my childhood again! 不再忧伤，今晚我又回到童年！

　　I have grown weary of dust and decay, 滚滚红尘，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; 世事喧嚣，充满尔虞我诈，

　　Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep! 妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！

　　Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, 我早已，厌倦世俗的虚伪卑鄙，

　　Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you! 哦，妈妈，我从心底呼唤你！

　　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，跌落在花开花落之间，

　　Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain, 难以抑制，我多年的思念苦楚，

　　Long I to-night for your presence again. 哦，妈妈，渴望你今晚出现。

　　Come from the silence so long and so deep; 回来吧，你在寂寞黑暗消失很久，

　　Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep! 妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！