Re:Three years she grew (원문)

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Three years she grew



1 Three years she grew in sun and shower,
2 Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower
3 On earth was never sown;
4 This Child I to myself will take;
5 She shall be mine, and I will make
6 A Lady of my own.

7 "Myself will to my darling be
8 Both law and impulse: and with me
9 The Girl, in rock and plain,
10 In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,
11 Shall feel an overseeing power
12 To kindle or restrain.

13 "She shall be sportive as the fawn
14 That wild with glee across the lawn
15 Or up the mountain springs;
16 And hers shall be the breathing balm,
17 And hers the silence and the calm
18 Of mute insensate things.

19 "The floating clouds their state shall lend
20 To her; for her the willow bend;
21 Nor shall she fail to see
22 Even in the motions of the Storm
23 Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form
24 By silent sympathy.

25 "The stars of midnight shall be dear
26 To her; and she shall lean her ear
27 In many a secret place
28 Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
29 And beauty born of murmuring sound
30 Shall pass into her face.

31 "And vital feelings of delight
32 Shall rear her form to stately height,
33 Her virgin bosom swell;
34 Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
35 While she and I together live
36 Here in this happy dell."

37 Thus Nature spake--The work was done--
38 How soon my Lucy's race was run!
39 She died, and left to me
40 This heath, this calm and quiet scene;
41 The memory of what has been,
42 And never more will be.