三年間她在陽光陣雨中生長

作者： 威廉．華茲華斯（William Wordsworth）
譯者： 陳杪



三年間她在陽光陣雨中生長，
然後大自然說：「土地從未栽種
出更可愛的花兒；
我會把這個小女孩帶上，
她將屬於我，時刻在身旁，
她將成為我的人兒。」



「於我寵愛的人而言，我就是
律法和動力：這女孩跟我一起，
無論在石林或平原，
林間或覆蔭，塵世或天堂，
都感到那俯瞰一切的力量，
受激勵或受管約。



「她會如小鹿般玩個不停，
欣喜若狂地穿過草坪，
或是爬上山泉；
她的呼吸會香氣芬馥，
她會帶著沒感知景物
的靜默和安詳。



「浮雲會借她輕逸的風姿，
為著她柳枝也會把腰折；
即使從狂舞的風暴，
她也不會看漏箇中的優雅，
是這種優雅在無聲的感應
把少女嬌態塑造。



「午夜星辰會親切待她；
而她會側起耳傾聽，
在許多隱密角落，
那兒小溪跳著舞宛延，
淙淙水聲流露的美感
會泛上她的臉。



「生氣蓬勃的愉悅感情
會使她身姿玉立婷婷，
處女的胸脯隆鼓；
這些念頭我會向露茜述說，
當她和我一起生活
在這快樂的小山谷。」



大自然於是說──大功告成──
我的露茜多麼快跑畢全程！
她死了，給我留下
這片荒野，這片沉靜的景致，
還有對於往事的憶記，
可永遠無法復加。

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原文：


"Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower"

-- by William Wordsworth

(Published in Lyrical Ballads, 1800)

Three years she grew in sun and shower,
Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown;
This Child I to myself will take;
She shall be mine, and I will make
A Lady of my own.



"Myself will to my darling be
Both law and impulse: and with me
The Girl, in rock and plain,
In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,
Shall feel an overseeing power
To kindle or restrain.



"She shall be sportive as the fawn
That wild with glee across the lawn,
Or up the mountain springs;
And her's shall be the breathing balm,
And her's the silence and the calm
Of mute insensate things.



"The floating clouds their state shall lend
To her; for her the willow bend; 
Nor shall she fail to see
Even in the motions of the Storm
Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form
By silent sympathy.



"The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face. 



"And vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form to stately height,
Her virgin bosom swell;
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
While she and I together live
Here in this happy dell."



Thus Nature spake--The work was done--
How soon my Lucy's race was run!
She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm, and quiet scene; 
The memory of what has been, 
And never more will be.