Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
时光穿梭，飞快地回到从前，
Make me a child again, just for to-night!
今晚星光，我变成可爱孩子，
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
妈妈，从无法应答的彼岸归来，
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
一如往昔，将我搂抱入怀。
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
轻轻地， 她吻着我的前额皱纹，
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;
随后抚平，我鬓角上初现白发，
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;—
满心怜爱，默默地看我安睡——
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
时光穿梭，追溯往昔岁月，
I am so weary of toil and of tears;
难以应对， 生活困厄操劳，
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain;
呕心沥血，汗水无法兑现，
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
不再忧伤，今晚我又回到童年！
I have grown weary of dust and decay,—
滚滚红尘，行尸走肉的皮囊，
Weary of flinging my soul wealth away;
迷惘不安，如何失去信念？
Weary of sowing for others to reap;—
世事喧嚣，充满尔虞我诈，
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,
我早已，厌倦世俗的虚伪卑鄙，
Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you!
哦，妈妈，我从心底呼唤你！
Many a summer the grass has grown green,
夏夜星落，那片滴翠的草地，
Blossomed and faded, our faces between:
母女笑容，跌落在花开花落之间，
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
难以抑制，我多年的思念苦楚，
Long I to-night for your presence again.
哦，妈妈，渴望你今晚出现。
Come from the silence so long and so deep;—
回来吧，你在寂寞黑暗消失很久，
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
妈妈呵，慢慢荡起摇篮，让我入眠！
