DECEMBER NIGHT

 TAKE off your cloak and your hat

     And your shoes, and draw up at my hearth¹

     Where never woman sat.

 

     I have made the fire up bright;

     Let us leave the rest in the dark

     And sit by firelight.

 

     The wine is warm in the hearth;

     The flickers² come and go.

     I will warm your feet with kisses

     Until they glow.

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1 hearth   

n.壁炉炉床，壁炉地面

参考例句：

• She came and sat in a chair before the hearth.她走过来，在炉子前面的椅子上坐下。
• She comes to the hearth,and switches on the electric light there.她走到壁炉那里，打开电灯。

2 flickers   

电影制片业； （通常指灯光）闪烁，摇曳( flicker的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The fire flickers low. 炉火颤动欲灭。
• A strange idea flickers in my mind. 一种奇怪的思想又在我脑中燃烧了。