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He, therefore, turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,
就這樣，他像個小偷輕輕轉過身，免得腳下粗糲的卵石發(fā)出聲響，
And feeling all along the garden wall, Lest he should swoon and tumble and be found, Crept to the gate,
他沿著院墻摸索著向前，免得昏倒在地被人發(fā)現(xiàn)，躡足潛蹤來到門口，
and opened it, and closed, As lightly as a sick man's chamber door, Behind him, and came out upon the waste.
打開門后隨手關上，那聲響就像走出病房，在他身后就是那片荒野。
And there he would have knelt but that his knees Were feeble, so that falling prone he dug His fingers into the wet earth, and prayed.
他本想在那兒跪下，可他雙膝虛弱無力，仰面摔倒，他的手指摳進濕泥里，默默祈禱。
"Too hard to bear! why did they take me thence? O God Almighty, blessed Savior,
"天哪，我受不了！他們?yōu)槭裁匆獛一貋恚堪。f能的上帝，賜福眾生的救世主，
Thou That did'st uphold me on my lonely isle, Uphold me, Father, in my loneliness A little longer! aid me, give me strength Not to tell her, never to let her know.
既然在荒島上救我性命，我的圣父啊，那就求你在我這孤獨中賜我一點希望，助我，給我力量別告訴她，讓她永遠不要知道。
Help me not to break in upon her peace. My children too! must I not speak to these? They know me not. I should betray myself.
幫幫我吧，別擾了她的安寧。還有我的孩子！我也斷不能對他們言講？他們不知道我是誰，我該表明身份。
Never!—no father's kiss for me!—the girl So like her mother, and the boy, my son!"
絕對不行！——他們不會吻我這個父親——那個，像極了她母親的姑娘，還有那男孩，我的兒子！"
There speech and thought and nature failed a little, And he lay tranced; but when he rose and paced Back toward his solitary home again,
他氣短神疲，聲若游絲思若絕，失神倒地，但當他站起，回到他那與世隔絕的住處時，
All down the long and narrow street he went Beating it in upon his weary brain, As tho' it were the burden of a song,
待走下那又長又狹的街道不停地在他疲倦的腦海敲打的是恍若一首歌的疊句，
"Not to tell her, never to let her know."
"千萬不要講給她聽，絕對不能讓她知道。"
