If You Were Coming in the Fall

If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, As Housewives do, a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls - And put them each in seperate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse - If only Centuries, delayed, I'd count them on my Hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Dieman's Land. If certain, when this life was out - That yours and mine, should be I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind, And take Eternity - But, now, uncertain of the lenghth Of this, that is between, It goads me, like the Goblin Bee - That will not state - it's sting. 如果你能在秋季来到 我会用掸子把夏季掸掉 一半轻蔑，一半含笑 像管家妇把苍蝇赶跑 如果一年后能够见到你 我将把月份缠绕成团 — 分别存放在不同的抽屉 免得，混淆了日期 — 如果只耽搁几个世纪 我会用我的手算计 — 把手指逐一屈起，直到 全部倒伏在亡人国里 如果确知，聚会在生命 — 你的和我的生命，结束时 — 我愿意把生命抛弃 — 如同抛弃一片果皮 — 但是现在难以确知 相隔还有多长时日 — 这状况刺痛我犹如妖蜂 — 秘而不宣，那是毒刺