F1.2.9 As if I asked a common alms -

F1.2.9 Fascicle one Sheet two Stanza 9)

From Emily Dickinson’s Poems As She Preserved Them. Edited by Christine Miller

As if I asked a common alms -
And in my wondering hand,
A stranger pressed a kingdom -
And I - bewildered stand -
As if I asked the Orient Had it for me a morn?
And it sh'd lift its purple dikes
And flood me with the Dawn!


好像我要求一场寻常的施舍似的 -
但在我期待的手中，
一个陌生人赐予了个王国 -
让我- 瞪目结舌 -
好像我要求东方神明赐我一个清晨？
而她打开了紫色堤坝
用黎明的晨光湮没了我！