ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): IX

9. (Summary)
        O joy! that in our embers
        Is something that doth live,  
        That nature yet remembers  
        What was so fugitive!
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
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Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest�
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:�
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        Not for these I raise
        The song of thanks and praise;
    But for those obstinate questionings
    Of sense and outward things,
    Fallings from us, vanishings;
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    Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
        But for those first affections,
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        Those shadowy recollections,
      Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;
  Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake,
            To perish never:
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
            Nor Man nor Boy,
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Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
    Hence in a season of calm weather
        Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
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        Which brought us hither,
    Can in a moment travel thither,
And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
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第九節大意：然則，我樂於認為兒時舊有的榮耀尚有餘存。一個成人尚未完全喪失往日的光彩，遺忘舊時的記憶。一種對現世幻象的感受力能引導，加強並撫慰我們。這種感受力歷久不滅。因此，我們時而可以再度了解我們前生的不朽存在。[back]
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 embers 餘燼。[back]
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 fugitive fleeting, not permanent短暫的，轉瞬即挺的。[back]
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 benediction the invocation of a blessing得自天堂的福祉。[back]
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 creed 信念。[back]
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 new-fledged （雛）剛會飛的。
Fluttering 鼓翼。[back]
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 raise 唱出。[back]
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 obstainate questionings 我們頭腦中對塵世中虛無不實的事務所發生之不斷的疑問。[back]
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 outward things 周圍的事物。外界。[back]
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 Falling from us, vanishings 一種夢幻空虛的感覺，從而覺得沒有一樣東西是真實的。[back]
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 Blank misgivings 說不出的疑惑。[back]
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 not realized unreal.[back]
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 High instincts 高超的本能。[back]
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 surprised unexpectedly caught冷不防被抓到。[back]
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 affections 感情。(feelings for "the things which I have seen," e.g. glory and dream.)[back]
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 shadowy obscure矇朧的。[back]
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 the fountain light 光源。
a master light 天堂之光。即是以使人見及真理者。[back]
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 Uphold support支持。
cherish 撫育，珍愛。[back]
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 Our noisy years 熙熙攘攘的歲月，即指此生。[back]
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 eternal Silence 永恒的靜默，即指eternal life.[back]
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 listlessness 冷淡，不關心。
endeavour 竭力。[back]
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 enmity hostility敵對。[back]
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 abolish 毀滅。[back]
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 calm weather 天氣晴朗。[back]
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 Though inland far we be 雖然我們遠在內陸，指長大了。[back]
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 immortal sea eternity永恒。[back]
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 Which 指immortal sea。
hither 指內陸。即成年期。[back]
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 thither 不朽海洋之濱，指兒童期。[back]
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 sport 嬉戲。[back]
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 mighty waters "the immortal sea."
Rolling （浪等）滾滾而來。
evermore 永遠。[back]

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