Heinrich Heine - New Spring汉译

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Sitting underneath white branches
Far you hear where winds are wailing;
Overhead you see the cloudbanks
Wrap themselves in misty veiling,

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See how on bare field and forest
Cold and barren death is seizing;
Winter’s round you, winter’s in you,

And your very heart is freezing.

Suddenly white flakes come falling
Down on you; and vexed and sour
You suppose some tree has shaken
Over you a snowy shower.

But it is no snow that’s fallen,
Soon you see with joyful start-
Look, it’s fragrant flower blossoms
Come to ease and tease your heart.

What a thrilling piece of magic!
Winter’s turned to May for you,
Snow’s transformed into blossoms,
And your heart’s in love anew.

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Like a fever-hearted maiden
Now green woods are blossoming
While the sun laughs down from heaven:
Welcome, welcome, maiden spring!

Nightingale! I hear your fluting,
Bittersweet and sad and lonely,
Sobbing long-drawn strains of longing,
And your song is love-love only!

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The lovely eyes of spring shine through
The night in consolation:
The love that once diminished you
Now lifts you in exaltation.

Upon a linden sings apart
The sweet-tongued philomel;
And as its song falls on the heart,
The heart’s desires swell.