My heart is like a singing bird

我心好似欢乐鸟，

                  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;

巢筑水草新枝上；

My heart is like an apple-tree

我心好似苹果树，

                  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

累累果实压弯枝；

My heart is like a rainbow shell

我心好似五彩贝，

                  That paddles in a halcyon sea;

藏于静海嬉水游；

My heart is gladder than all these

我心欢愉更甚乎，

                  Because my love is come to me.

只因吾爱忽降临。

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

为我建座丝绒台，

                  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

挂起珍皮与紫幔；

Carve it in doves and pomegranates,

镂刻鸽子与石榴。

                  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

雕出百眼凤凰鸟；

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

镶嵌金银白葡萄，

                  In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

再添繁叶绕百合；

Because the birthday of my life

人生华彩添一日，

                  Is come, my love is come to me.

只为吾爱伴左右。