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船夫曼特胡的船只停泊在拉琪根琪码头。
这只船无用地装载着黄麻，无所事事地停泊在那里已经好久了。
只要他肯把他的船借给我，我就给它安装一百只桨，扬起五个或六个或七个布帆来。
我决不把它驾驶到愚蠢的市场上去。
我将航行遍仙人世界里的七个大海和十三条河道。
但是，妈妈，你不会躲在角落里为我哭泣。
我不会像罗摩犍陀罗
似的，到森林中去，一去十四年才回来。
我将成为故事中的王子，把我的船装满了我所喜欢的东西。
我将带我的朋友阿细和我做伴，我们要快快乐乐地航行于仙人世界里的七个大海和十三条河道。
我将在绝早的晨光里张帆航行。
中午，你正在池塘里洗澡的时候，我们将在一个陌生的国王的国土上了。
我们将经过特浦尼浅滩，把特潘塔沙漠抛落在我们的后边。
当我们回来的时候，天色快黑了，我将告诉你我们所见到的一切。
我将越过仙人世界里的七个大海和十三条河道。
I long to go over there to the further bank of the river,
Where those boats are tied to the bamboo poles in a line;
Where men cross over in their boats in the morning with ploughs on their shoulders to till their far-away fields;
Where the cowherds make their lowing cattle swim across to the riverside pasture;
Whence they all come back home in the evening, leaving the jackals to howl in the island overgrown with weeds.
Mother, if you don’t mind, I should like to become the boatman of the ferry when I am grown up.
They say there are strange pools hidden behind that high bank.
Where flocks of wild ducks come when the rains are over,and thick reeds grow round the margins where waterbirds lay their eggs;
Where snipes with their dancing tails stamp their tiny footprints upon the clean soft mud;
Where in the evening the tall grasses crested with white flowers invite the moonbeam to float upon their waves.
Mother, if you don’t mind, I should like to become the boatman of the ferryboat when I am grown up.
I shall cross and cross back from bank to bank, and all the boys and girls of the village will wonder at me while they are bathing.
When the sun climbs the mid sky and morning wears on to noon, I shall come running to you, saying, “Mother, I am hungry!”
When the day is done and the shadows cower under the trees, I shall come back in the dusk.
I shall never go away from you into the town to work like father.
Mother, if you don’t mind, I should like to become the boatman of the ferryboat when I am grown up.