My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is coming to me.
我的心像只鳴啼的小鳥
在柔潤的技條上築著巢;
我的心像棵蘋果樹
被累累的碩果壓彎了腰;
我的心像個虹彩的貝殼
在平靜的海上輕輕蕩漾;
我的心比這些還更歡暢
因為我的愛情已經來到。
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it with doves and pomegranates
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life is coming,
My love is coming to me.
為我造一座絲絨的講壇
用金色和紫色顏料塗染;
在上面雕刻鴿子和石榴
還有孔雀長著一百隻眼;
再用金銀葡萄把它妝扮
樹葉和鷲尾草銀光閃閃;
因為我的生日已經來臨，
因為我的愛情已經來到。