Like a young cold the country was now growing fast 就像一个年轻的寒冷国家现在正快速增长

Passenger trains in the east were traveling a hundred miles an hour 在东部旅客列车行驶了一百英里的时速

People in the country could buy clothes by mail order 在国内的人可以买衣服的邮购

And get 'em back within two weeks 并得到他们回来两个星期之内

   

After twenty years or more the South 经过二十年以上的南方

Was still mending its wounds from the civil war 还在内战修补它的伤口

But with all the country's problems 但与该国的所有问题

The union was solid 该联盟是牢固

   

Red American novelists and poets 红美国小说家和诗人

Were coming into their own 分别进入自己的

People were expressing their love 人们表达自己的爱

For America in song and in poem 对于美国在歌曲和诗

   

And in South Carolina 而在南卡罗来纳州

A high tone southern gentleman 高音调南部绅士

Expressed his love and admiration 表达了他的爱和钦佩

For his president James A Garfield in such a way 对于他的总裁詹姆士·加菲尔德以这样的方式