我心好似欢乐鸟，

My heart is like a singing bird

巢筑水草新枝上；

                  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;

我心好似苹果树，

My heart is like an apple-tree

累累果实压弯枝；

                  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

我心好似五彩贝，

My heart is like a rainbow shell

藏于静海嬉水游；

                  That paddles in a halcyon sea;

我心欢愉更甚乎，

My heart is gladder than all these

只因吾爱忽降临。

                  Because my love is come to me.

为我建座丝绒台，

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

挂起珍皮与紫幔；

                  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

镂刻鸽子与石榴。

Carve it in doves and pomegranates,

雕出百眼凤凰鸟；

                  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

镶嵌金银白葡萄，

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

再添繁叶绕百合；

                  In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

人生华彩添一日，

Because the birthday of my life

只为吾爱伴左右。

                  Is come, my love is come to me.