Samuel Rogers - The Sleeping Beauty 汉译

Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile –

  Tho’ shut so close thy laughing eyes,

Thy rosy lips still wear a smile

  And move and breathe delicious sighs!

Ah, now soft blushes tinge her cheeks

  And mantle o’er her neck of snow:

Ah, now she murmurs, now she speaks

  What most I wish – and fear to know!

She starts, she trembles, and she weeps!

  Her fair hands folded on her breast:

–         And now, how like a saint she sleeps!

A seraph in the realms of rest!

Sleep on secure! Above control

  Thy thoughts belong to Heaven and thee:

And may the secret of thy soul

  Remain within its sanctuary!