原文
Beyond were the "back fields" of the farms that ran out to the upper
Carmody road. Just before them, hemmed in by beeches and firs but open
to the south, was a little corner and in it a garden . . . or what had
once been a garden. A tumbledown stone dyke, overgrown with mosses and
grass, surrounded it. Along the eastern side ran a row of garden cherry
trees, white as a snowdrift. There were traces of old paths still and
a double line of rosebushes through the middle; but all the rest of the
space was a sheet of yellow and white narcissi, in their airiest, most
lavish, wind-swayed bloom above the lush green grasses.
語彙など
- hem:取り囲む
- beech:ブナノキ
- tumbledown:荒れはてた
- dyke:堤防,岩脈
- overgrown:一面に茂って
- moss:コケ
- row:列
- snowdrift:雪の吹きだまり
- traces of:〜の痕跡
- rosebush:バラの木
- narcissi:＝narcissus(スイセン)
- airy:軽快な
- lavish:ぜいたくな
- sway:揺れる
- bloom:花
- lush:青々と茂った