(第十課)

 

As I was going up the stair

I met a man who wasn't there.

He wasn't there again today

Oh, how I wish he'd go way!

   

 

當我上樓時,

遇到一個不在的人。

今天他還是不在那裡,

啊!多希望他趕快離開。

 

A Word  

A word is dead

When it is said,

Some say.

I say it just

Begins to live

That day.

 

 

有人說

語言用過

就不存在。

我說

說過那天

它又活了過來。

 

 

Afternoon on a Hill 

 

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.

 

I will look at cliffs and clouds

With quiet eyes.

Watch the wind bow down the grass,

And the grass rise.

 

And when lights begin to show

Up from the town,

I will mark which must be mine,

And then start down

   

 

午後山上遠眺

 

在陽光下

我最快活不過了

輕觸著千百朵花

但一朵也不採

 

靜靜地

我要遠眺懸崖、浮雲

看著風吹草動

上下搖擺的舞姿

 

城內華燈初上

照亮著灰暗的上空

細細尋找那盞屬於我的燈

然後才心滿意足的下山