A Portrait1/Robert Louis Stevenson翻訳

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A Portrait
From Underwoods
Robert Louis Stevenson

I am a kind of farthing dip,
Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;
A blue-behinded ape, I skip
Upon the trees of Paradise.
僕は鼻と目に敵意のある、
ファ一ジングすりの類。
僕はパラダイスの木々の上で飛び跳ねる、
悲感を隠した猿。

22:35 2016/05/31火

At mankind's feast, I take my place
In solemn, sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While I defile the dinner plate.

I am the "smiler with the knife,"
The battener upon garbage, I --
Dear Heaven, with such a rancid life,
Were it not better far to die?

Yet still, about the human pale,
I love to scamper, love to race,
To swing by my irreverent tail
All over the most holy place;

And when at length, some golden day,
The unfailing sportsman, aiming at
Shall bag, me -- al the world shall say
Thank God, and there's an end of that!