The Rose of the World
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塵世玫瑰
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| Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? |
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誰夢見美如夢而逝？ |
| For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, |
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這些紅艷的唇，滿含哀嘆的驕傲， |
| Mournful that no new wonder may betide, |
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哀嘆再無可期待的奇跡—— |
| Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, |
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特洛伊在沖天葬火中焚毀， |
| And Usna's children died. |
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尤斯納之子盡數死去。 |
| We and the labouring world are passing by： |
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我們與這辛勞的世界一起 |
| Amid men's souls, that waver and give place |
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在人類的靈魂間掠過，那些靈魂 |
| Like the pale waters in their wintry race, |
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如冬日里蒼冷的河川奔騰， |
| Under the passing stars, foam of the sky, |
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在泡沫般流逝的星空底下 |
| Lives on this lonely face. |
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這孤獨的面容永生。 |
| Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode： |
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鞠躬吧，眾天使，從你們晦暗的住所： |
| Before you were, or any hearts to beat, |
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在你們受造之前，或任何心臟跳動之前， |
| Weary and kind one lingered by His seat; |
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那疲倦而善良的人徘徊在神座下； |
| He made the world to be a grassy road |
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神造這世界成一條青草大道 |
| Before her wandering feet. |
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在她浪游的雙腳前邊。 |
