Come, Here is Adieu to the City

COME, here is adieu to the city

And hurrah¹ for the country again.

The broad road lies before me

Watered with last night’s rain.

The timbered country woos me

With many a high and bough²;

And again in the shining fallows

The ploughman follows the plough.

The whole year’s sweat and study,

And the whole year’s sowing time,

Comes now to the perfect harvest,

And ripens³ now into rhyme.

For we that sow in the Autumn,

We reap our grain in the Spring,

And we that go sowing and weeping

Return to reap and sing.

1 hurrah   

int.好哇，万岁，乌拉

参考例句：

• We hurrah when we see the soldiers go by.我们看到士兵经过时向他们欢呼。
• The assistants raised a formidable hurrah.助手们发出了一片震天的欢呼声。

2 bough   

n.大树枝，主枝

参考例句：

• I rested my fishing rod against a pine bough.我把钓鱼竿靠在一棵松树的大树枝上。
• Every bough was swinging in the wind.每条树枝都在风里摇摆。

3 ripens   

v.成熟，使熟( ripen的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The sun ripens the crops. 太阳使庄稼成熟。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Then their seed ripens, and soon they turn brown and shrivel up. 随后，它们的种子熟了，不久就变枯萎。 来自辞典例句