PAPA’S BABY
I’m writing a letter to papa,
My baby-boy sitting by me,
His big blue eyes eagerly watching
So that all I am doing he’ll see.
爸爸的宝贝
我正写信给爸爸，
宝贝儿子坐一边儿，
大大的蓝眼睛看着我，
在热切的眼神的关注里，
什么都逃不过。
“Now, darling, don’t touch!
And I’ll tell you.
About all these things I have here.
Just fold those wee meddle some fingers---
Yes, I know what you’d like to do,dear!
亲爱的，不要摸，
妈妈将会告诉你，
所有的这些事儿哟。
把你的小手收起来，
我知道你要干什么！
“This paper so smooth is to carry
To papa the news from his home;
To tell him we love him and miss him,
And count off the days when he’ll come.
“光滑的纸纸是信使，
带给爸爸家里的信儿，
我们爱着他，我们想着他，
我们数着日子等着他回家。”
“And the pen and the ink I must write with—
Yes, funny black marks just like this
Will+- tell papa how much we love him,
And how we both send him a kiss.
“这是墨水和钢笔，
写出的黑点点很神奇，
他能告诉爸爸我们爱他有多深，
而且我们都给他送去了一个吻。”
“Then into this envelope waiting
The letter all folded will go;
And up in one corner, to send it,
I’ll put on a postage stamp, so!
“把信叠起来，装进信封里，
堆在角落那，然后寄出去。
还要贴个邮票，哦！千万别忘记。”
“If that stamp wasn’t there, baby darling,
The letter, you see, wouldn’t go,
But the stamp will safe carry to papa
All the news that we want him to know.”
“如果没有邮票呀，信就哪也去不了。
邮票却可以安全地，
带到爸爸那里去，
传递我们想让他知道的消息。”
Then while I bent over my letter,
The moist dimpled fingers closed fast
Around the stamp-box and its contents,
And Baby was happy at last.
当我继续去写信，
发现胖嘟嘟的小手在靠近，
在贴邮票的地方摸了摸，
然后他变得很高兴。
“Da-da!” The gleeful shout roused me;
The baby, dear mischievous elf.
Had fastened a stamp on his forehead
To go to dear papa himself!
“哒—哒！”宝宝快活的叫起来，
调皮的小精灵真是可爱，
他把邮票贴在额头上，
想把自己寄给爸爸哎！