Loveliest of Trees

Alfred Edward Housman

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

嬌嬌櫻花樹，

滿樹綻銀花，

挺立林邊道，

佳節披素紗。

我生六十又十年，

其中二十不再返，

七十春天減了二十載，

只有五十給我剩下來。

既然看萬物繁榮

五十個春天不夠用，

那我就到林地樹下

去看白雪掛櫻花。