Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below The SEA-blooms and the oozy woods which wear , The sapless foliage of the ocean, know.

把自己向两边劈开，而深在渊底那海洋中的花草和泥污的森林，虽然枝叶扶疏，却没有精力；

The tender shoots and the expanding flowers are nipped and withered, and of a vine that yearned to stretch its tendril round the world there is left but a sapless stump.

柔弱的嫩芽和绽放的花朵已经被掐断，枯萎败落，曾想将自己的卷须伸展到全世界的蔓藤，如今只剩下干瘪的残枝委地。