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Ode: Intimations of Immortality VI

作者Author / William Wordsworth 威廉．華滋華斯

ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): VI

6. (Summary)
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,	80
And, even with something of a mother's mind,
And no unworthy aim,
The homely Nurse doth all she can
To make her foster child, her Inmate Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,	85
And that imperial palace whence he came.

Line / No.	Word or Phrase	Annotation
第六節大意：現世的歡樂與追求都使我們忘掉前世的榮耀。
6/79	lap	膝部（指可放置嬰兒或東西的地方）。[back]
80	Yearnings	desires渴求的東西。
80	Of her own natural kind	According to her nature.[back]
81	something of a Mother's mind	母性（大地有養育萬物的天性）。[back]
83	homely	simple and friendly平易近人的。The homely Nurse指Earth。[back]
84	foster child	養子。大地供給人生長所需的東西，故有養育之恩。
84	Inmate	家人，同住者。即大地與人同住於宇宙之中。[back]
86	imperial palace	莊嚴的地方，壯麗的地方（指天堂）。[back]