Love letter

情书

（沈从文写给张兆和的情书）

文/沈从文

译/风木白

Youth fades day by day,

一个白日带走了一点青春，

Though what we had in my memory can not be erased,

日子虽不能毁坏我印象里你所给我的光阴，

Still it makes me different gradually.

却慢慢的使我不同了。

A girl in the poet’s verse,

一个女子在诗人的诗中，

Shall ever live young,

永远不会老去，

But he himself ages.

但诗人他自己却老去了。

I think about it,

我想到这些，

And tarried.

我十分犹豫了。

Life is too thin,

生命是太脆薄的一种东西，

which withers more than a flower against the days,

并不比一株花更经得住年月风雨，

With an eye for nature,

用对自然倾心的眼，

Look at our lives.

反观人生。

I can’t help but feel cherished of passion,

使我不能不觉得热情的可珍，

On the same person and same thing,

在同一人事上，

Coincidence just...