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But next day, Want came to me pale and bare.
但第二天，蒼白赤裸的匱乏，幽靈似地來到我身邊。
Long after the little birds had left their nests;
小鳥早已離開他們的巢穴，
long after bees had come in the sweet prime of day to gather the heath honey before the dew was dried
早露未干蜜蜂便早已在一天的黃金時(shí)刻飛到歐石南叢中采蜜，
when the long morning shadows were curtailed, and the sun filled earth and sky -- I got up, and I looked round me.
早晨長長的影子縮短了，太陽普照大地和天空--我才起身，朝四周看了看。
What a still, hot, perfect day! What a golden desert this spreading moor!
一個(gè)多么寧靜、炎熱的好天！一望無際的荒原多像一片金燦燦的沙漠！
Everywhere sunshine. I wished I could live in it and on it.
處處都是陽光。我真希望自己能住在這里，并以此為生。
I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.
我看見一條蜥蜴爬過巖石，一只蜜蜂在甜蜜的越桔中間忙碌。
I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.
此刻我愿做蜜蜂或蜥蜴，能在這里找到合適的養(yǎng)料和永久的住處。
But I was a human being, and had a human being's wants:
但我是人，有著人的需求。
I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.
我可不能逗留在一個(gè)無法滿足這種需求的地方，
I rose; I looked back at the bed I had left.
我站了起來，回頭看了一眼我留下的床鋪。
Hopeless of the future, I wished but this -- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me while I slept;
我感到前途無望，但愿造物主認(rèn)為有必要在夜里我熟睡時(shí)把我的靈魂要去；
and that this weary frame, absolved by death from further conflict with fate,
但愿我這疲乏的身軀能因?yàn)樗劳龆鴶[脫同命運(yùn)的進(jìn)一步搏斗，
had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness.
但愿它此刻無聲無息地腐敗，平靜地同這荒原的泥土融為一體。
Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities.
然而，我還有生命，還有生命的一切需要、痛苦和責(zé)任。
The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled. I set out.
包袱還得背著；需要還得滿足；痛苦還得忍受；責(zé)任還是要盡。于是我出發(fā)了。
