They click upon themselves as the breeze rises and turn many-colored as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

一阵风吹起，树枝就咯喇喇响,闪射出五彩缤纷，原来这一颤动,冰块坼裂成瓷瓶上的无数细纹。

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With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained; Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground, And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.

惊恐中担心想象中的那些脸庞有了细纹;,前方的战场上没有血流成河，没有枪炮的轰鸣，或者向下指着的冒烟的枪口下的哀求。

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