Stray Birds飞鸟集

Love's pain sang round my life like the unplumbed sea, and love's joy sang like birds in its flowering groves.

爱的痛苦环绕着我的一生，象汹涌的大海似地唱；而爱的快乐却象鸟儿们在话林里似地唱着。

Let them live who choose in their own hissing world of fireworks.

My heart long s for your stars, my God.

让那些选择了他们自己的焰火咝咝的世界的，就生活在那里吧。

我的心渴望着您的繁星，我的上帝。

Lead me in the centre of your silence to fill my heart with songs.

领我到您的沉寂的中心，使我的心充满了歌吧。

They light their own lamps and sing their own words in their temples.

But the birds sing your name in thine own morning light, --- for your name is joy.

他们点了他们自己的灯，在他们的寺院内，吟唱他们自己的话语。

但是小鸟们却在你的晨光中，唱着你的名字，－－因为你的名字便是快乐。

Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.

爱就是充实了的生命，正如盛满了酒的酒杯。

While I was passing with the crowd in the road I saw your smile from the balcony and I sang and forgot all noise.

当我和拥挤的人群一同在路上走过时，我看见您从阳台上送过来的微笑，我歌唱着，忘却了所有的喧哗。

I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.

我将死了又死，以明白生是无穷无尽的。

I have seen you as the half-awakened child sees his mother in the dusk of the dawn and then smiles and sleeps again.

我看见你，像那半醒的婴孩在黎明的微光里看见他的母亲，于是微笑而又睡去了。

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

让死者有那不朽的名，但让生者有那不朽的爱。