Foresight

Foresight

   by William Wordsworth

采花女

That is work of waste and ruin--
Do as Charles and I are doing!
Strawberry-blossoms, one and all,
We must spare them--here are many:
Look at it--the flower is small,
Small and low, though fair as any:
Do not touch it! summers two
I am older, Anne, than you.

Pull the primrose, sister Anne!
Pull as many as you can.
--Here are daisies, take your fill;
Pansies, and the cuckoo-flower:
Of the lofty daffodil
Make your bed, or make your bower;
Fill your lap, and fill your bosom;
Only spare the strawberry-blossom!

Primroses, the Spring may love them--
Summer knows but little of them:
Violets, a barren kind,
Withered on the ground must lie;
Daisies leave no fruit behind
When the pretty flowerets die;
Pluck them, and another year
As many will be blowing here.

God has given a kindlier power
To the favoured strawberry-flower.
Hither soon as spring is fled
You and Charles and I will walk;
Lurking berries, ripe and red,
Then will hang on every stalk,
Each within its leafy bower;
And for that promise spare the flower!

预见

 威廉·华兹华斯

别胡来，那是糟践和摧残，
瞧着我和查尔斯那样干！
草莓花，都留下，
不要摘，不能掐；
你瞧她，不斗艳，不炫妖，
平凡的美好，淡朴的娇娆。
大家都不要动这花中的小小，
安妮，你小我两岁，听我忠告。

安妮妹妹，你不妨采樱草，
摘吧，你要多少就采多少。
这里有雏菊，任你采个够，
三色堇、剪秋罗，两样都有。
还可以用那纤长的水仙，
把你的闺房和枕席装点。
撷之盈你袖，采之满你怀，
除却草莓花，别的任你采。

樱草报春春所爱，
夏天一来渐衰败。
有花无子紫罗兰，
飘零委地自凋残。
雏菊小花谢落时，
不会留下啥果实。
这些任采不相干，
明年又有花烂熳。

草莓花为上天所钟爱，
身上更有雅意温情在。
很快就难觅春天踪迹，
你我查尔斯再来这里，
有红熟草莓欲露还藏，
垂缀在株株的花梗上，
在密密的枝叶里掩映，
莫动，为明天这般美景！

威廉·华兹华斯简介