I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket
sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
The original text can be found after the phonetic transcription. Of course, I haven't done a pure phonetic transcription, as it is used to be done in university for instance. I wrote English words transcribed into phonetic, as if we had a genuine writing. But, it just represents sounds.
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1) I found my pretty cousin, has her mother had suggested in the stable-yard.
2) The bonnet of her little car was open, and she, and Plunkett - my uncle’s chauffeur
3 were occupied as far as I could judge, in diagnosing a case of engine trouble.
4) “Hullo!” she called out as I came nearer “you are just in time to help.”
5) What's the matter with Emma ?" I asked. For Emma is the name of my pretty cousin’s little car
6) Or, rather, the name which she has chosen to bestow on it.
7) “Nothing”, she answered, “She just won't start.”
8) “I should hardly call that nothing”, I ventured to observe.
9) “I mean to say, it’s a bit of a drawback sometimes where a car is concerned.”
10) “Funny” said my pretty cousin scathingly. “Now, just for a punishment,
11) you shall have a go at swinging her over.”
12) “But what’s the self-starter for?” “You’d better ask the makers”, said my pretty cousin.
13) “Hurry up, we’re all waiting.”
14) So I bent down, grasped the starting handle, and rotated it with the utmost violence.
15) Emma danced about on her springs and the blood nearly burst through the top of my head,
16) but not so much as a solitary explosion did she vouchsafe.
17) “Just as I though”, was my cousin’s only comment, as I released the handle,
18) and staggered back, overcome with giddiness.
19) “I’m afraid you’ll have to give her a push.”
“All right”, I said. And then: “Hullo! What’s happened to Plunkett?”
20) “He’s gone”, said my cousin. “I told him”
“Yes, but”
21) Oh, come on”, she said impatiently. “It won’t hurt you to show Emma a few yards.”
22) I took off my coat, while she closed the bonnet again and climbed into the driver’s seat.
23) “Now then”, she said.
24) I went round to the back and began heaving like Sisyphus himself.
25) “Just a second”, my pretty cousin called over her shoulder.
26) “I’d forgotten the hand-brake.”
I bent down once more.
27) The gravels came in showers from beneath my shoes, but this time Emma was undoubtedly moving.
28) “That’s right”, shouted my pretty cousin. “A bit faster, if you can manage it.”
29) I tucked in my head, shut my eyes; clenched my teeth, and began to run.
30) “Pop”, went Emma’s exhaust. “Pop-pop!” And then suddenly “P-p-p-pop, Bang!”
31) And as I scrambled up from where I had fallen heavily on my knees,
32) I was just in time to see the little car vanishing round the corner –
33) About five minutes later, when I had cooled down sufficiently to resume my coat,
34) I was startled by the harsh shriek of an electric horn,
35) and the little car came dashing back again, swerved savagely in my direction,
36) missed me and fetched up in the coach-house with a shriek of agony from the hastily-applied brakes.
37) The roar of its engine died abruptly away, and my cousin – looking remarkably cool – came walking towards me.
38) “There she said, with a sound of satisfaction. “That’s all right.”
39) “But aren’t you going out?” I asked. “ Do you mean to say –
40) “Why?” she interrupted. “ Did you hope I was leaving you?”
41) “No, of course not. But – “
“ I only wanted to make sure that I could start her”, she explained.
(After Denis Mackail in How amusing, around 1950.)
