Audiobook Dictation: “Between her steps and mine were…”

Between her steps and mine were not a hundred, When equally the margins gave a turn, In such a way, that to the East I faced.

彼女の歩みと私の歩みの間は百歩にも満たなかった、そのとき両岸がひとしく曲がり、私は東に向くこととなった。

Nor even thus our way continued far Before the lady wholly turned herself Unto me, saying, "Brother, look and listen!"

そうして道を遠くまで進まぬうちに、貴婦人はすっかり私の方へ向き直り、「兄弟よ、見よ、そして聞け！」と言った。

And lo! a sudden lustre ran across On every side athwart the spacious forest, Such that it made me doubt if it were lightning.

すると見よ！突然の輝きが広い森を四方八方に走り、私はそれが稲妻ではないかと疑った。

But since the lightning ceases as it comes, And that continuing brightened more and more, Within my thought I said, "What thing is this?"

だが稲妻は来るや否や消えるものなのに、それは続いてますます明るくなったので、私は心の中で言った。「これは何であろうか？」

Underneath which had she devoutly stayed, I sooner should have tasted those delights Ineffable, and for a longer time.

もし彼女がその下に敬虔にとどまっていたなら、私はあの言い表しがたい歓びをもっと早く、もっと長く味わえたであろう。

O Virgins sacrosanct! if ever hunger, Vigils, or cold for you I have endured, The occasion spurs me their reward to claim!

おお、いと聖なる処女たちよ！もしかつて私があなたがたのために飢えや徹夜や寒さに耐えたのなら、今こそその報いを求めるときだ！

Now Helicon must needs pour forth for me, And with her choir Urania must assist me, To put in verse things difficult to think.

今こそヘリコンは私のために湧き出でよ、ウラニアはその合唱とともに私を助けよ、思い描くことさえ難しいものを詩にするために。

But when I had approached so near to them The common object, which the sense deceives, Lost not by distance any of its marks,

だが私がそれらにすっかり近づき、感覚を欺く共通の対象が、距離によってその特徴を何ひとつ失わなくなったとき、

The faculty that lends discourse to reason Did apprehend that they were candlesticks, And in the voices of the song "Hosanna!"

理性に言葉を貸す力は、それらが燭台であること、そして歌声の中に「ホサナ！」とあることを悟った。

Then back I turned my face to those high things, Which moved themselves towards us so sedately, They had been distanced by new-wedded brides.

それから私は再びあの崇高なものたちへと顔を向けた。それらはあまりにしずしずとこちらへ進んでくるので、新婚の花嫁たちにさえ追い越されたであろう。