It's interesting that Milton certainly begins this headnote with suggesting directly to us that it's Milton speaking and not a fictional uncouth swain.

弥尔顿在开头就清楚明了的告诉我们,在吟诵诗歌的人是他，而不是某个粗鄙的年轻人,这非常有意思。

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We didn't know this. It has been spoken by the uncouth swain, a rustic shepherd.

我们对此并不了解，这首诗是由一个粗鄙的年轻人，一个村夫牧羊人叙述的。

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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

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