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.

我的心像只鸣啼的小鸟

在柔润的技条上筑着巢;

我的心像棵苹果树

被累累的硕果压弯了腰;

我的心像个虹彩的贝壳

在平静的海上轻轻荡漾;

我的心比这些还更欢畅

因为我的爱情已经来到。

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.

为我造一座丝绒的讲坛

用金色和紫色颜料涂染;

在上面雕刻鸽子和石榴

还有孔雀长着一百只眼;

再用金银葡萄把它妆扮

树叶和鹫尾草银光闪闪;

因为我的生日已经来临，

因为我的爱情已经来到。