ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): X

10. (Summary)
Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
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        And let the young lambs bound
        As to the tabor's sound!
We in thought will join your throng,
      Ye that pipe and ye that play,
      Ye that through your hearts to-day
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      Feel the gladness of the May!
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
    Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
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      We will grieve not, rather find
      Strength in what remains behind;
      In the primal sympathy
      Which having been must ever be;
      In the soothing thoughts that spring
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      Out of human suffering;
      In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
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第十節大意：因此，我們仍然可以在春日中享受自然的歡樂。雖然昔日的榮耀已逝，但是早期對自然的休慼之感卻依稀尚存。是以我們也就不必悲傷，因為從過去我們獲得力量，激起對未來的信心。[back]
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 in thought in imagination.
throng n.群。[back]
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 pipe make music。[back]
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 through your hearts heartily由衷的。[back]
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 radiance 光輝，天堂之榮耀。[back]
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 primal first; original最初的，原始的。[back]
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 which having been must ever be 以前如此，今後亦必如此。[back]
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 soothing consoling撫慰。[back]
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 faith the faith in the immortality of the Soul對靈魂不滅的信心。[back]
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 philosophic mind understanding mind.[back]

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