原文
After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat
there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water
laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind. Anne had always loved
that brook. Many a dream had she spun over its sparkling water in
days gone by. She forgot lovelorn youths, and the cayenne speeches of
malicious neighbors, and all the problems of her girlish existence. In
imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining
shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie,
with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she
was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away,
but the things that are unseen are eternal.
語彙など
- wander:ぶらつく
- finespun:ごく細く紡いだ
- gloom:暗がり
- duet:二重唱
- spin:(話などを糸を紡ぐように)作り出す
- sparkling:きらめく
- days gone by:過ぎ去りし日
- lovelorn youth:恋に悩む青年
- cayenne:トウガラシ
- malicious:意地の悪い
- girlish:女の子らしい
- faerie:妖精の国,おとぎ話の世界
- forlorn:見捨てられた
- Atlantis:アトランティス大陸
- Elysium:イリジューム(極楽,祝福された死者だけの園:ギリシャ神話)
- pilot:水先案内人
- pass away:この世を去る
- eternal:永遠の