Audiobook Dictation: “I was as a gem concealed…”

"I was as a gem concealed; Me my burning ray revealed." Koran.

“我曾如一颗深藏的宝石；我炽热的光芒将我显露。”——《古兰经》

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

灵魂的每一个许诺都有无数次的实现；它的每一份喜悦都会成熟为新的渴求。

Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.

自然无可容纳、奔流不息、高瞻远瞩，在最初的柔情之中，便已预示了一种博爱，那博爱将在其普照之光中消融一切个别的眷顾。

The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.

青春的美妙幻想排斥成熟哲理的哪怕一丝气息，认为它会以老成与迂腐冷却自己紫色的花朵。

And therefore I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.

因此我知道，那些组成爱情宫廷与爱情议会的人会指责我无谓地冷酷与禁欲。

But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.

但面对这些可畏的审查者，我将向比我年长的人申诉。