Ode: Intimations of Immortality: I

ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): I

The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.	5
It is not now as it hath been of yore--
Turn whereso'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Line / No.	Word or Phrase	Annotation
第一節大意：曾經有一段時間，大自然中的事事物物，在我看來，似乎都披上天堂的光彩，而這種「榮耀與夢」如今已經消逝。
Title	Inimations	hints 暗示。[back]
Title	Immortality	（靈魂）不朽，永生。
Epigraph		這一段Epigraph節自Wordsworth的 My Heart Leaps Up一詩的的最後幾行。
	Bound	inseparably connected緊繫在一起。
	Natural piety	對自然的虔誠，以別於根據聖經的「虔誠」。[back]
1/1	grove	小林，樹叢（尤指為裝飾、娛樂而裁植者）。[back]
4	appareled	clothed覆被。
4	celestial	天上的，天堂的。[back]
5	freshness of a dream	夢樣的清新。[back]
6	of yore	往昔的。[back]