Emily Dickinson：I dwell in Possibility

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I dwell in Possibility / Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility —

我居住於無限可能 –

A fairer House than Prose —

一棟更美的房子，比起散文

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More numerous of Windows —

更多窗戶 –

Superior — for Doors —

更優越的門 –

Of Chambers as the Cedars —

雪松般的內室 –

Impregnate of Eye —

肉眼無法洞視 –

And for an Everlasting Roof

而那永恆的屋頂


The Gambrels of the Sky —

是穹蒼起伏的波紋 –

Of Visitors — the fairest

訪客 – 來的最是美麗


For Occupation — This —

而我做的 – 是這個 –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

無盡延展我狹窄的雙手

To gather Paradise —

將天堂採集 –

(Mary May 譯）