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.

她的脚步与我的脚步相隔不到百步，两岸便一同转了个弯，于是我面向了东方。

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

我们这样也没走多远，那位女士便整个转身向我，说道：“兄弟，你看，你听！”

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！一道突如其来的光辉从四面八方掠过广阔的森林，使我疑心那是闪电。

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

可是闪电来去匆匆，而这光却持续不断，越来越亮，我心中暗想：“这是何物？”

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

倘若她虔诚地留在那下面，我便能更早地尝到那些难以言喻的欢乐，而且更为长久。

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

啊，神圣的贞女们！倘若我曾为你们忍受饥饿、守夜或寒冷，此刻正促我索取那份报偿！

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

如今赫利孔山须为我涌流，乌拉尼亚须率她的合唱来助我，把难以思量之事写成诗句。

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

可是当我走得离它们那样近，那欺骗感官的共同之物，已不因距离而失去任何特征时，

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

那赋予理性以言辞的官能，便领悟到它们是烛台，而歌声中唱的是“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.

随后我又把脸转向那些崇高之物，它们向我们移来得如此从容，连新婚的新娘也会把它们甩在后面。