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And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking, till she came near the mill. Now, the miller’s daughter was cooking that day, and needed water for her cooking. And as she went to draw it from the stream, she saw something floating towards the mill-dam, and she called out, ‘Father! father! draw your dam. There’s something white – a merrymaid or a milk-white swan – coming down the stream.’ So the miller hastened to the dam and stopped the heavy, cruel mill-wheels. And then they took out the princess and laid her on the bank.
Fair and beautiful (светлой и прекрасной; fair – красивый, прекрасный /обычно о женщинах/; светлый, белокурый) she looked as she lay there (она выглядела, пока она лежала = лежа там; to lie – лежать). In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones (в ее золотых волосах были жемчуга и драгоценные камни); you could not see her waist for her golden girdle (ты не мог = невозможно было видеть ее талию за ее золотым поясом), and the golden fringe of her white dress (и золотая кайма ее белого платья) came down over her lily feet (спускалась над ее лилейными ножками; foot – нога /ступня/). But she was drowned, drowned (но она была утонувшая, утонувшая)!
And as she lay there in her beauty (и когда она лежала там в своей красоте) a famous harper passed by the mill-dam of Bi
Fair and beautiful she looked as she lay there. In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not see her waist for her golden girdle, and the golden fringe of her white dress came down over her lily feet. But she was drowned, drowned!
And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill-dam of Bi
So he made a harp out of her breast-bone and her hair (так что он сделал арфу из ее грудной кости и ее волос), and travelled on (и отправился дальше) up the hill from the mill-dam of Bi
That night they were all gathered (той ночью они все собрались: «были все собраны») in the castle hall (в замковом зале) to hear the great harper (чтобы услышать великого арфиста) – king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William, and all their Court (король и королева, их дочь и сын, сэр Уильям и весь их двор). And first the harper sang to his old harp (и сперва арфист пел под свою старую арфу), making them joy and be glad (заставляя их радоваться и быть довольными), or sorrow and weep (или печалиться и рыдать), just as he liked (прямо как он хотел = по своей воле). But while he sang (но пока он пел), he put the harp he had made that day (он поставил арфу, которую он сделал в тот день) on a stone in the hall (на камень в зале). And presently it began to sing by itself (и некоторое время спустя она начала петь сама собой), low and clear (тихо и ясно), and the harper stopped and all were hushed (и арфист остановился, и все замолкли: «были заставлены замолчать»).
So he made a harp out of her breast-bone and her hair, and travelled on up the hill from the mill-dam of Bi
That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper – king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William, and all their Court. And first the harper sang to his old harp, making them joy and be glad, or sorrow and weep, just as he liked. But while he sang, he put the harp he had made that day on a stone in the hall. And presently it began to sing by itself, low and clear, and the harper stopped and all were hushed.
And this is what the harp sang (и вот что пела арфа):
‘O yonder sits my father, the king (о, там сидит мой отец, король),
Bi
And yonder sits my mother, the queen (а там сидит моя мать, королева);
By the bo
‘And yonder stands my brother Hugh (а там стоит мой брат Хью),
Bi
And by him my William, false and true (и подле него мой Уильям, неверный и верный);
By the bo
And this is what the harp sang:
Then they all wondered (тогда они все удивились), and the harper told them how he had seen (и арфист сказал им, как он раньше видел; Past Perfect) the princess lying drowned on the bank (принцессу, лежащую утонувшей на берегу) near the bo
‘And there sits my sister who drowned me (а там сидит моя сестра, которая утопила меня)
By the bo
And the harp snapped and broke, and never sang more (и /тут/ арфа треснула и разбилась, и никогда/вовсе не пела больше; to break – разбиться).
Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bo
‘And there sits my sister who drowned me
By the bo
And the harp snapped and broke, and never sang more.