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.

她的腳步與我的腳步相隔不到百步，兩岸便一同轉了個彎，於是我面向了東方。

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

我們這樣也沒走多遠，那位女士便整個轉身向我，說道：「兄弟，你看，你聽！」

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

看哪！一道突如其來的光輝從四面八方掠過廣闊的森林，使我疑心那是閃電。

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

可是閃電來去匆匆，而這光卻持續不斷，越來越亮，我心中暗想：「這是何物？」

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

倘若她虔誠地留在那下面，我便能更早地嘗到那些難以言喻的歡樂，而且更為長久。

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

啊，神聖的貞女們！倘若我曾為你們忍受飢餓、守夜或寒冷，此刻正促我索取那份報償！

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

如今赫利孔山須為我湧流，烏拉尼亞須率她的合唱來助我，把難以思量之事寫成詩句。

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

可是當我走得離它們那樣近，那欺騙感官的共同之物，已不因距離而失去任何特徵時，

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

那賦予理性以言辭的官能，便領悟到它們是燭台，而歌聲中唱的是「和散那！」

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.

隨後我又把臉轉向那些崇高之物，它們向我們移來得如此從容，連新婚的新娘也會把它們甩在後面。