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But here is an artist.
可是,這兒有一位畫家,
He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
他想為你畫一幅在薩科。流域算是最陶醉,最幽靜,最迷人的田園風景,
What is the chief element he employs?
他將采用什么主題呢?
There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within;
那邊立著他的樹,株株樹身都是空的,仿佛那里頭有個隱士和個耶穌受難像;
and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke.
這兒睡著他的草地,那兒睡著他的牛;那邊的小屋升起睡意的炊煙。
Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.
一條迷津似的小徑,彎彎曲曲地伸入遠處的林野,向著那山坡青翠。
But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.
重重疊疊的崗巒迤邐而去。可是,盡管這個畫面是這樣的恍如夢境,盡管這株松樹把它的聲聲太息象落葉似的撒在牧羊人的頭上,然而,除非那牧羊人的眼睛注視著他面前那道富有魔力的溪流,否則,這一切就都是白費的。
Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies-what is the one charm wanting?
你去看一看六月里的大草原吧,當你一步步地跨過好幾十英里深沒膝踝的卷丹草叢時...這兒缺少哪種具有誘惑力的東西呢?
