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Ode: Intimations of Immortality V

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): V

5. (Summary)
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,	60
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come	65
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But he	70
Beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,
And by the vision splendid	75
Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

Line / No.	Word or Phrase	Annotation
第五節大意：(詩人著手著手尋譯這種喪失之感的原委。)我們到此世界之前原有前生的存在。我們的靈魂原與上帝同居共處；降世之初，天堂似乎仍在左右。這種天堂之光日漸消逝。迨至成人則不復看見天堂的榮耀，而跌入庸碌的日常生活中。
5/58	Our borth is but a sleep and a forgetting	今世只是（靈魂的）一次睡眠及遺忘。[back]
60	Star	指sun把soul譬為生命的太陽。正如日山日落，人生時，靈魂自永恒來，人死時，靈魂又回歸永恒。[back]
61	elsewhere	指靈魂之歸處，即天堂。[back]
62	forgetfulness	遺忘。[back]
64	nakedness	赤裸。[back]
65	trailing clouds of glory	拖曳著榮耀的雲霞。即人生時還帶著天堂的榮耀。[back]
67	lies about	包圍。[back]
68	Shades	陰影。
	Prison-house	監獄。指現實的世界，在此天真無邪的孩童，漸漸喪失其榮耀。[back]
	Close (upon)	圍攏。[back]
71	Beholds	看。
71	whence	從何處。[back]
74	Naturee's Priest	自然的祭司。就如何波羅的祭司能夠解釋阿波羅的預言，The Youth也能說明大自然的啟示。[back]
75	vision	幻景。
	Splendid	壯觀的，璀燦的。[back]
76	attended	伴隨。[back]
77	perceive	發覺。[back]
78	fade	失去光彩。[back]