我爱你，亲爱的，我爱你，

As I walked out one evening,

   Walking down Bristol Street,

一直爱到中国与非洲相撞，

The crowds upon the pavement

爱到大河跳上了山顶。

   Were fields of harvest wheat.

鲑鱼来到大街上歌唱。

And down by the brimming river

我爱你，直至海洋被关进栅栏，

   I heard a lover sing

为了晒干而被人倒挂；

Under an arch of the railway:

直至七颗星星粗声喊叫，

   'Love has no ending.

就像空中出现了鹅鸭。

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you

岁月将像兔子一样奔跑，

   Till China and Africa meet,

因为我以自己的心坎，

And the river jumps over the mountain

紧紧搂住时代的花朵

   And the salmon sing in the street,

以及大千世界的初恋。

'I'll love you till the ocean

   Is folded and hung up to dry

And the seven stars go squawking

   Like geese about the sky.

'The years shall run like rabbits,

   For in my arms I hold

The Flower of the Ages,

   And the first love of the world.'

But all the clocks in the city

   Began to whirr and chime:

'O let not Time deceive you,

   You cannot conquer Time.

'In the burrows of the Nightmare

   Where Justice naked is,

Time watches from the shadow

   And coughs when you would kiss.

'In headaches and in worry

   Vaguely life leaks away,

And Time will have his fancy

   To-morrow or to-day.

'Into many a green valley

   Drifts the appalling snow;

Time breaks the threaded dances

   And the diver's brilliant bow.

'O plunge your hands in water,

   Plunge them in up to the wrist;

Stare, stare in the basin

   And wonder what you've missed.

'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,

   The desert sighs in the bed,

And the crack in the tea-cup opens

   A lane to the land of the dead.

'Where the beggars raffle the banknotes

   And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,

And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,

   And Jill goes down on her back.

'O look, look in the mirror,

   O look in your distress:

Life remains a blessing

   Although you cannot bless.

'O stand, stand at the window

   As the tears scald and start;

You shall love your crooked neighbour

   With your crooked heart.'

It was late, late in the evening,

   The lovers they were gone;

The clocks had ceased their chiming,

   And the deep river ran on.