F1.2.1-4 I had a guinea golden -

F1.2.1-4(Fascicle one Sheet two Stanza 1-4)
From Emily Dickinson’s Poems As She Preserved Them. Edited by Christine Miller

I had a guinea golden -
I lost it in the sand -
And th? the sum was simple
And pounds were in the land -
Still, had it such a value
Unto my frugal eye -
That when I could not find it -
I sat me down to sigh.


我有过一枚几尼金币 -
但我遗失在了沙里 -
虽然数额不大
地里也有得是 -
但在我节俭的眼里 -
它还是价值不菲
在我找不到它的那刻 -
我只能坐下长叹。

I had a crimson Robin -
Who sang full many a day
But when the woods were painted
- He - too - did fly away -
Time brought me other Robins -
Their ballads were the same -
Still, for my missing Troubadour
I kept the "house at hame".


我有过一只红色的知更鸟 -
每天尽情歌唱
但当层林尽染时
他 - 也 - 飞走了 -
时光带来过其它的知更鸟 -
他们的歌谣依旧 -
不过，为了我失联的吟游诗人
我保留了他的＂住家＂。


I had a star in heaven -
One "Pleiad" was its name -
And when I was not heeding,
It wandered from the same -
And tho the skies are crowded -
And all the night ashine -
I do not care about it -
Since none of them are mine.


我的天宇有过个颗星星 -
它的名字叫＂普里亚得＂-
我一没留意，
它走出了自己原驻位 -
尽管天空群星荟萃 -
彻夜璀璨 -
但我不想在意 -
因为没有一颗属于我。


My story has a moral -
I have a missing friend -
"Pleiad" its name - and Robin -
And guinea in the sand -
And when this mournful ditty
Accompanied with tear -
Shall meet the eye of traitor
In country far from here -
Grant that repentance solemn
May seize upon his mind -
And he no consolation
Beneath the sun may find.


我的故事有个寓意 -
我有个失踪的好友 -
＂普里亚得＂是它的名字 - 知更鸟 -
和沙里的金币
这伤心的旋律
伴随着泪水 -
(此情此景)应与那负心人直面相对
在遥远的他乡 -
愿这庄重的悔意
能纠住他的良知 -
让他在朗朗乾坤下
无法寻得慰藉。

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