I wish I could remember that first day by Christina Rossetti

 

Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember that first day]

 

Christina Rossetti, 1830 - 1894

 

 I wish I could remember that first day, 

First hour, first moment of your meeting me, 

If bright or dim the season, it might be 

Summer or Winter for aught I can say; 

So unrecorded did it slip away, 

So blind was I to see and to foresee, 

So dull to mark the budding of my tree 

That would not blossom for many a May. 

If only I could recollect it, such 

A day of days! I let it come and go 

As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow; 

It seemed to mean so little, meant so much; 

If only now I could recall that touch, 

First touch of hand in hand—Did one but know!

 

願我記得初識那一日

 

Christina Rossetti, 1830 - 1894

 

願我記得初識那一日，

那一刻， 那瞬間， 

那季節，明媚或陰暗，

我當記得是夏天還是冬季；

初識流逝無痕跡，

因我心盲未看穿， 

花苞默默隱樹冠，

經年遲遲迎花期。

 

讓我能回想，

回想那一天！  怎任它溜走 

無痕如融雪的溪流；

一日雖短但悠長；

唯願重溫倆相傍，

初識牽手情－何人心中留！