Blake - 4 - The Chimney Sweeper | 扫烟囱的孩子

The poet contrasts an idyllic childhoodwith the reality of life for 18th-century chimney sweeps in London.

诗人将田园诗般的童年与18世纪伦敦的清扫烟囱的童工的现实生活进行了对比。

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When my motherdied I was very young,

And my father soldme while yet my tongue

Could scarcely cry"weep! weep! weep! weep!"

So your chimneys Isweep and in soot I sleep.

There's little TomDacre, who cried when his head

That curled like alamb's back, was shaved, so I said,

"Hush, Tom!never mind it, for when your head's bare,

You know that thesoot cannot spoil your white hair."

And so he wasquiet, and that very night,

As Tom wasa-sleeping he had such a sight!

That thousands ofsweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,

Were all of themlocked up in coffins of black.

And by came anAngel who had a bright key,

And he opened thecoffins & set them all free;

Then down a greenplain, leaping, laughing they run,

And wash in ariver and shine in the Sun.

Then naked andwhite, all their bags left behind,

They rise uponclouds, and sport in the wind.

And the Angel toldTom, if he'd be a good boy,

He'd have God forhis father and never want joy.

And so Tom awoke;and we rose in the dark

And got with ourbags and our brushes to work.

Though the morningwas cold, Tom was happy and warm;

So if all do theirduty, they need not fear harm.

我妈妈死时我年纪很小，

爸爸就把我送去卖掉；

我连叫一声“哭啊，哭啊 ”也不会，

你家烟囱我来扫，煤屑堆里我来睡。

有个小汤姆·代克头发卷曲像羊毛，

一剃头就要哭个哇哇叫；

我说：“汤姆，你别哭，不要紧，头一光，

煤屑就不会再把你的白发弄脏。”

汤姆安静了，就在当天夜间，

他睡着梦见奇迹出现；

阿猫阿狗上万个扫烟囱的小孩，

都给锁进了黑漆漆的棺材。

天使来了，手里的要是亮晃晃，

他打开棺材，让他们个个解放；

他们笨下绿原，又跳又笑，

下河洗澡，在阳光里闪耀。

赤裸的身子雪白，他们把袋子丢下，

他们升上云端，在风里玩耍；

天使告诉汤姆，要是他乖乖听话，

他就会一声快活，上帝做他爸爸。

汤姆醒来，我们就抹黑起床，

带着袋子刷子把工上；

早晨虽冷，汤姆又快乐又暖和；

大家都尽本分就不怕灾祸。