55 | 你若在秋天到来，我必将夏日拂去 - If you were coming in the fall

Hi everyone, welcome to the Leisure Park.

Today I want to share with you the poem ‘If you were coming in the fall’, written by Emily Dickinson

 今天要和你们分享的是艾米莉·狄金森的诗歌《如果你在秋天到来》。

If you were coming in the fall,

如果你在秋天到来，

I’d brush the summer by

我将轻拂夏日而过

With half a smile, and half a spurn,

半带微笑，半带弃绝，

As Housewives do a fly.

如同管家妇把苍蝇赶跑。

If I could see you in a year,

如果能在一年之中将你盼来，

I’d wind the months in balls—

我将把月份缠绕成一个个纱球—

And put them each in separate drawers,

把它们分开，各自放进抽屉，

Until their time befalls

直到他们的时刻降临

If only Centuries delayed,

如果只是延至数个世纪，

I’d count them on my hand,

我愿搬弄手指度日数数，

Subtracting, till my fingers dropped

逐日递减，直到手指全部倒伏在

Into Van Dieman’s land.

塔斯马尼亚岛屿的土地。

If certain, When this life was out—

如果确定无疑，聚会在生命—

That yoursand mine, should be

你我的生命结束时，

I’d toss it yonder, like a rind,

我愿生命抛弃，如同抛弃一片果皮，

And taste eternity—

去品尝永恒的滋味

But, now, all ignorant of the length

但现在，无法测量那

of the time’s uncertain wing

倏忽不定的时间之翼

It goads me, like the Goblin Bee—

这状况刺痛我有如妖蜂，

That will not state- it’s sting

无法诉说—如刺如燎。

今天的节目就到这里啦。欢迎订阅Leisure Park闲时公园。下期节目我们将一起欣赏George Gordon Byron的诗歌'She walks in beauty'.See you next time.