61. To Willie and Henrietta 致威利和汉妮塔

TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

        If two may read aright

        These rhymes of old delight

        And house and garden play,

    You too, my cousins, and you only, may.

        You in a garden green

        With me were king and queen,

        Were hunter, soldier, tar,

    And all the thousand things that childrenare.

        Now in the elders' seat

        We rest with quiet feet,

        And from the window-bay

    We watch the children, our successors,play.

        "Time was," the golden head

        Irrevocably said;

        But time which none can bind,

致威利和汉丽塔

这诗句，记录着旧日的欢喜，
还有房间和花园里的嬉戏；
如果有谁能正确读出这些句子，
那只有你们，我的表妹表弟。

你们在那花园的绿荫里，
陪我玩国王和王后的游戏，
你们也是猎人、士兵、水手，
和孩子能变的一千种东西。

如今我们停下步子，
安静地坐上大人的椅子，
透过窗棂，看那些孩子，
就像我们从前的样子。

“这就是岁月，”太阳说着，

一去不回头。
可岁月虽然不能挽留，
它匆匆流逝，却把爱藏在了身后。