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Revolutions sweep O’er earth, like troubled visions o’er the breast Of dreaming sorrow;
革命在世間籠罩，就像焦慮的幻想襲上夢(mèng)中悲傷的胸膛；
cities rise and sink like bubbles on the water; fiery isles spring blazing from the ocean,
似水中氣泡那樣，城市拔地而起而又陷落；燃燒的島嶼，那火焰來(lái)自海上，
and go back to their mysterious caverns; mountains rear to heaven their bald and blackened cliffs,
又回到它們神秘的洞穴；群山拱衛(wèi)，它們光禿禿黑魆魆的懸崖，
and bow their tall heads to the plain; new empires rise, gathering the strength of hoary centuries,
向平地低下它們高昂的頭顱；新帝國(guó)誕生了，憑借的是幾個(gè)世紀(jì)積聚的力量，
and rush down, like the Alpine avalanche, startling the nations; and the very stars,
就像阿爾卑斯山的大雪崩，夷平了那些還在驚駭中的國(guó)家；每個(gè)星星，
yon bright and burning blazonry of God, glitter a while in their eternal depths,
在那邊閃亮和燃燒，炫示上帝的光芒，在它們永恒的深淵閃爍星光，
and, like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, shoot from their glorious spheres, and pass away,
像七星那樣，承著最愛(ài)，從它們光芒的宇宙射出，一閃而過(guò)，
to darkle in the trackless void; yet time, time the tomb builder, holds his fierce career,
在無(wú)跡的太空變暗；然而時(shí)光，墳?zāi)範(fàn)I造者這位時(shí)間老人，他的兇猛依舊，
dark, stern, all pitiless, and pauses not amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path,
黑暗，嚴(yán)厲，無(wú)情決絕，不會(huì)在灑在他道路上的巨大災(zāi)難間駐足的，
to sit and muse, like other conquerors, upon the fearful ruin he has wrought.
他不會(huì)像其他征服者那樣，坐下來(lái)面對(duì)他一手造成的可怕廢墟陷入沉思。
