the Piper

Beneath the tinsel twilight skies
在流星熠熠的薄暮青空下
A changeling child with cinnamon eyes
換生靈眨著肉桂色的雙眼
Wends his way to a secret glade
悄悄走入神秘的林中空地
and plays his pipe in a serenade.
輕輕吹起他的小夜曲
In and out of the spectral trees
鑽進又穿出幽靈似的密林
Between the starlight burnished leaves,
徘徊在被星光打磨得透亮的樹葉間
He strolls the speckled toadstool way
他在墜滿斑點的蘑菇徑漫步
to join the elfin court in play.
渴盼和精靈一同嬉戲
The brown owl hoots upon the oak
橡樹上褐鴞咕鳴
The foxes howl and the green frogs croak
狐狸長嚎蛙聲一片
As through the wood to a marvellous moon
彷彿穿過樹林到了神妙的月宮
He blows the notes of an elfin tune.
他竟吹奏出精靈之音
Towards the moss -**** bridge he goes
他繼續前行向苔草叢生的橋走去
Where burble-pebble water flows,
橋下流水淙淙卵石清晰可見
Across the meadow up the hill
穿過草地爬上山崗
And on the wind I hear him still . . .
過往的風總攜著他的笛聲