Bed In Summer

Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

夏日無眠

羅伯特•路易斯•斯蒂文森

冬日早起不等天亮，
穿衣打扮借著燭光。
一到夏日適得其反，
大白天里我得上床。

雙眼睜開躺在床上，
枝頭小鳥雀躍跳蕩；
兩耳只聽腳步聲聲，
大人街頭來來往往。

晴空碧藍一片明亮，
游玩娛樂大好時光；
大白天里上床睡覺，
無可奈何誰能想象？