When the flowers come again, mother, beneath the waning light,
母亲啊，当鲜花再次盛开，昏暗渐弱的光线之下，
You'll never see me more, in the long gray fields at night;
漫长的暗夜里，你再也见不到我的容颜；
You'll bury me, my mother, just beneath the hawthorn shade,
我的母亲啊，就把我埋葬在山楂树的阴凉之下，
And you'll come sometimes and see me where I am lowly laid.
时而你会来看我，就到我的埋葬之地。
I have been wild and wayward, but you'll forgive me now;
我一直狂野任性，但是现在你要原谅我；
You'll kiss me, my own mother, and forgive me ere I go:
我的母亲啊，在我离别之前，你会亲吻我，原谅我：
Nay, nay, you must not weep, nor let your grief be wild;
不要，不要，你切不可哭泣，也不可悲伤过度；
You should not fret for me, mother,—you have another child.
母亲，你不应为我烦恼，——你还有另一个孩子。
Good night, good night: when I have said good night for ever-more,
晚安，晚安：我说晚安就是在说永远再见了，
And you see me carried out from the threshold of the door,
你看到我从门口悄悄离去，
Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green;—
直到我的墓穴上长出青草，才可以让艾菲来看我；——

She'll be a better child to you then ever I have been.
她会是一个比我更为乖巧的孩子。
She'll find my garden tools upon the granary floor;
她会在谷仓的地上找到我的园艺工具；
Let her take 'em; they are hers—I shall never garden more.
让她拿去用吧；现在这些工具是她的了——我再也不会种花植草了。
But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set
但是当我离去，告诉她，好好培育我种在客厅窗户边的玫瑰花丛，
About the parlour window, and the box of mignonette.
还有那一盒木犀草。
Good night, sweet mother! call me before the day is born;
晚安了，母亲！天亮之前叫我啊；
All night I lie awake, but I fall asleep at morn;
一整夜我彻夜难眠，可我会在清晨沉沉入眠；
But I would see the sun rise upon the glad New Year;
但是我会在喜气洋洋的新年里看到日出；
So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear.
亲爱的母亲，如果你清晨醒来，早点叫我，一定早点叫我。
—Tennyson
——坦尼森