Dear Uncle Jim, this garden ground
That now you smoke your pipe around.
Hasseen immortal actions done
And valiant battles lost and won.
Here we had best on tip-toe tread,
While I for safety march ahead,
For this is that enchanted ground
Where all who loiter slumber sound.
Here is the sea, here is the sand,
Here is simple Shepherd's Land,
Here are the fairy hollyhocks,
And there are Ali Baba's rocks.
But yonder, see! apart and high,
Frozen Siberia lies; where I,
With Robert Bruce and William Tell,
Was bound by an enchanter's spell.
There , then , awhile in chains we lay ,
In wintry dungeons , far from day ;
But ris’n at length , with miht and main ,
Our iron fetters burst in twain .
Then al the horns were blown in town ;
And to the ramparts clanging down ,
All the giants leaped to horse
And charged behind us through the gorse .
On we rode , the others and I ,
Over the mountains blue , and by
The Silver River , the sounding sea ,
And the robber woods of Tartary .
A thousand miles we galloped fast ,
And down the witches’ lane we passed ,
And rode amain with brandished sword ,
Up to the middle , through the ford .
Last we drew rein - a weary three -
Upon the lawn , in time for tea ,
And from our steeds alighted down
Before the gates of Babylon .
历史的联想
亲爱的吉姆叔叔，你抽着烟
环顾着的这片花园大地
见证过英雄不朽的壮举，
和许多输了又赢的战役。
我最好踮起脚迈步，
为了安全，我来领路，
因为这里是魔法的领地，
所有探险者都会中催眠术。
这儿是海洋，这儿是沙漠，
这儿是牧人的小小王国，
这儿是精灵的蜀葵花朵，
那儿是阿里巴巴的石头窝。
嗨，瞧那儿！不远处的高坡
就是西伯利亚的冰雪大地，
我，罗伯特．布鲁斯和威廉．退尔＊
全都被魔咒囚禁在那里。
那时候，在冰冷的地牢里，
我们身披锁链，见不到白天，
大家鼓足气力，才站起来，
把钢铁的脚镣，崩成两段。
城里所有的号角吹起，
向着围墙，气势如虹，
所有的巨人跨上马匹，
随我们冲出荆豆花丛。
我们一起骑马向前，
翻越重重蓝色山岭，
穿过银光河、空响海
和鞑靼强盗的密林。
我们飞奔出一千里，
抛远了女巫的小道，
全速驰骋，挥舞利剑，
穿过浅滩，水没及腰。
最后三英雄勒住马，气喘吁吁，
草地上，正是茶点时间，
我们从骏马上翻身下地，
巴比伦的城门就在眼前。
“译注：罗伯特.布鲁斯和威廉.退尔都是十四世纪反抗暴君统治的英雄。
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