Spring Thoughts--A Letter Written by Emily Dickinson
约翰：今天是礼拜天，他们全都上教堂去了。车子消失了踪影，我走到新长出的草地上倾听着赞美诗。有3、四只母鸡尾伴随我，大家并排坐在一块。它们叽叽咕咕地窃窃私语着，我要对你说我今日的所见所闻，还有我将见到的那些你所看过的旧景旧物。
你可还记得隔着斯威泽先生和大家的那堵烂墙，还有那些斑驳的榆树、常青树、与别的破败的东西吗？在短短的十二个月里，它们由荣至枯，又开始轮回。嗳，它们就在这儿呢！我头顶上，意大利的晴空辽远，蓝色的双眼向下俯瞰着。就在上边。你看到了吗？一群队伍经过，远去了，走向天国。一只知更鸟正在归巢，这儿还有让人眼花缭乱的乌鸦与鸟儿，还有--无论怎么样请相信我--这儿还有一只大黄蜂。约翰，它可不像夏季里那些辛勤而雄赳赳的蜜蜂，而像是一个穿着打扮洋洋自得的伦敦东区的人。我肯定得把这对你说，这多叫人感到欣喜快乐呀。约翰，假如你能和我一同在这4月的青草上，那该有多好！
还有的叫人伤心的事。每一处，去年过去拍打的羽翼都化成了尘土，李子在腐烂，那座房屋--鸟儿曾在里面栖息，去年苍蝇还在那儿奔忙，蟋蟀还在那儿戏耍--现在却已空空。大家也同样会飞舞着，然后老去，约翰。现在在大家唇上轻绕的曲子非常快也要唱完了。
谢谢你的来信，约翰。我非常高兴收到了信，更开心的是收到了两封。看到在你心中有一份对我的深切关怀的确令我开怀，了解到你对旧情的珍重令我喜悦。有时，忙碌、尘封的岁月与蛛网也不会将往日隔离，在我心灵深处，仍有一个僻静的角落永远都等待着故友的来访。那样在游吟诗人歌唱的时候，记住你的旧日朋友吧，也别忘了洒一掬清泪，无论歌谣唱起唱毕。
It is Sunday now, John, and all have gone to church. The 1)wagons have done passing and I have come out in the new grass to listen to the 2)anthems. Three or four hens have followed me and we sit side by side. And while they crow and whisper, Ill tell you what I see today, and what I would that you saw.
You remember the 3)crumbling3 wall that pides us from Mr. Sweetzer; and the crumbling 4)elms and evergreens4 and other crumbling things that spring and fade and cast their bloom within a simple twelve months? Well they are here! And skies on me fair and far than Italy in blue eye look down, up. See? Away a league from here on the way to heaven. And here a 5)robin5s just got home and 6)giddy crows and 7)jays and - will you trust me as I live - heres a 8)bumblebee. Not such as summer brings, John, earnest 9)manly6 bees, but a kind of a 10)cockney, dressed in 11)jaunty7 clothes. Much that is 12)gay have I to show. If you were here with me, John, upon this April grass!
Then there are sadder features. Here and there, wings have gone to dust that 13)fluttered so last year, a 14)moldering prune8, an empty house in which a bird 15)resided where last years flies their 16)errand ran and last years 17)crickets fell. We too are flying, fading, John. And the song here lies soon upon the lips that live us now will have 18)hummed and ended.
Thank you for your letter, John. Glad I was to get it, and gladder had I got them both. And glad indeed to see if in your heart another lies bound one day to me amid your momentous9 cares, pleasant to know that langsyne has its own place. That 19)nook and 20)cranny still retain their accustomed guest and when busier cares and dustier days and 21)cobwebs less in frequent shut what was away. Still as a 22)ballad10 hummed and lost, remember early friend and drop a tear if a 23)troubadour that 24)strain may chance to sing.
1、 wagon1 [5wAgEn] n. 四轮马车，货车
2、 anthem2 [5AnWEm] n. 圣歌，赞美诗
3、 crumbling [5krQmbliN] a. 破烂的，崩溃的
4、 elm [elm] n. 榆树
5、 robin [5rCbin] n. 知更鸟
6、 giddy [5gidi] a. 眼花缭乱的，轻率的
7、 jay [dVei] n. 鸟
8、 bumblebee [5bQmblbi:] n. 大黄蜂，土蜂
9、 manly [5mAnli] a. 雄赳赳的
10、 cockney [5kCkni] n. 伦敦东区人
11、 jaunty [5dVC:nti] a. 感到自信和自满的
12、 gay [gei] a. 开心的
13、 flutter [5flQtE] v. 拍打
14、 moldering [5mEuldEriN] a. 腐朽的，崩溃的
15、 reside [ri5zaid] v. 居住
16、 errand [5erEnd] n. 差使，跑腿
17、 cricket [5krikit] n. 蟋蟀
18、 hum [hQm] v. 嗡嗡叫，哼
19、 nook [nuk] n. 隐蔽处
20、 cranny [5krAni] n. 裂缝
21、 cobweb [5kCbweb] n. 蜘蛛网
22、 ballad [5bAlEd] n. 歌谣
23、 troubadour [5tru:bEduE] n. 行吟诗人，民谣歌手
