Rock Me To Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Allen. Schubert - Rosamunde (excerpt).

Backward,turn backward,O Time,in your flight
噢，流逝的時光，後退，向後退
Make me a child again just for tonight!
就只是今夜，讓我做回純真小孩！
Mother,come back from the echoless shore,
媽媽，從沒有回音的海岸回來
Take me again to your heart as of yore
一如往昔把我擁入懷裡
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care
親吻我額頭時那充滿關懷的皺紋
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair
順理我頭上亂糟糟的銀色髮絲
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep
在我熟睡時，一直憐愛地望著我
Rock me to sleep, mother,rock me to sleep!
搖我入眠，媽媽，搖我入眠！
Backward,flow backward,O tide of the years!
噢，歲月的潮汐，後退，向後退！
I am so weary of toil and of tears,—
我己厭倦於辛勞與眼淚
Toil without recompense,tears all in vain
辛勞而無補償，眼淚徒流而無助
Take them,and give me my childhood again
都拿去吧，只要回到我童年
I have grown weary of dust and decay
我已經厭倦了塵埃與腐敗
Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away
厭倦於丟失我的精神財富
Weary of sowing for others to reap
厭倦於為他人作出嫁衣裳
Rock me to sleep,mother rock me to sleep!
搖我入眠，媽媽，搖我入眠！
Tired of the hollow,the base,the untrue
厭倦於空洞，卑鄙，不真實
Mother,O mother,my heart calls for you!
媽媽，噢，媽媽，我的心在呼喚您！
Many a summer the grass has grown green
多少個夏天，草長綠了
Blossomed and faded,our faces between
花開了，凋謝了，在你我之間
Yet,with strong yearning and passionate pain
然而，強烈的願望，激情的痛苦
Long I tonight for your presence again
讓我今夜渴望再見到您的出現
Come from the silence so long and so deep
來自沉默，那麼久遠，那麼深沉
Rock me to sleep, mother,rock me to sleep!
搖我入眠，媽媽，搖我入眠！
Come, let your brown hair,just lighted with gold
來吧，讓您的棕髮，閃閃發光
Fall on your shoulders again as of old
一如往昔落在您的肩膀
Let it drop over myforehead tonight
讓它落在我額頭，今夜
Shading my faint eyes away from the light
護我微弱的眼晴，不讓光線照到
For with its sunny-edged shadows once more
再一次，這個邊緣充滿柔光的身影
Happly will throng the sweet visions of yore
無意中又撩起昔日甜蜜的願景
Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep
深情地，輕柔地，您明亮的髮絲，波光粼粼
Rock me to sleep, mother, – rock me to sleep!
搖我入眠，媽媽，搖我入眠！
Mother, dear mother, the years have been long
媽媽，自我最後一次聽您的搖籃曲
Since I last listened your lullaby song
我親愛的媽媽，已經過去那麼多年了
Sing, then, and unto my soul it shall seem
那麼，唱吧，唱到我心靈深處
Womanhood's years have been only a dream.
讓扮演婦人的歲月，只是場夢
Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace
將我緊靠您的心，作個愛的擁抱
With your light lashes just sweeping my face
您的睫毛輕輕，掃過我的面龐
Never hereafter to wake or to weep—
從今而後不再醒來或哭泣
Rock me to sleep, mother– rock me to sleep!
搖我入眠，媽媽，搖我入眠……