《飞鸟集》结尾

“God kisses the finite in his love and man the infinite.

上帝在他的爱里吻着“有涯”，而人却吻着“无涯”。”

“Cheerless is the day, the light under frowning clouds is like a punished child with traces of tears on its pale cheeks, and the cry of the wind is like the cry of a wounded world. But I know I am traveling to meet my Friend.

这一天是不快活的，光在蹙额的云下，如一个被打的儿童，在灰白的脸上留着泪痕，风又叫号着似一个受伤的世界的哭声。但是我知道我正跋涉着去会我的朋友。”

“Tonight there is a stir among the palm leaves, a swell in the sea, Full Moon, like the heart-throb of the world. From what unknown sky hast thou carried in thy silence the aching secret of love?

今天晚上棕榈叶在嚓嚓地作响，海上有大浪，满月啊，就像世界在心脉悸跳。从什么不可知的天空，您在您的沉默里带来了爱的痛苦的秘密？”

“I dream of a star, an island of light, where I shall be born and in the depth of its quickening leisure my life will ripen its works like the rice-field in the autumn sun.

我梦见了一颗星，一个光明的岛屿，我将在那里出生，而在它的快速的闲暇的深处，我的生命将成熟它的事业，像在秋天的阳光之下的稻田。”

“The smell of the wet earth in the rain rises like a great chant of praise from the voiceless multitude of the insignificant.

雨中的湿土的气息，就像从渺小的无声的群众那里来的一阵子巨大的赞美歌声。”

“That love can ever lose is a fact that we cannot accept as truth.

说爱情会失去的那句话，乃是我们不能够当作真理来接受的一个事实。”

“We shall know some day that death can never rob us of that which our soul has gained, for her gains are one with herself.

我们将有一天会明白，死永远不能够夺去我们的灵魂所获得的东西，因为她所获得的，和她自己是一体。”

“God comes to me in the dusk of my evening with the flowers from my past kept fresh in his basket.

上帝在我的黄昏的微光中，带着花到我这里来，这些花都是我过去之时的，在他的花篮中，还保存得很新鲜。”

“Let me live truly, my Lord, so that death to me becomes true.

让我真真实实地活着吧，我的上帝，这样，死对于我也就成了真实的了。”

“Man's history is waiting in patience for the triumph of the insulted man.

人类的历史很忍耐地在等待着被侮辱者的胜利。”

“I long for the Island of Songs across this heaving Sea of Shouts.

我渴望着歌的岛峙立在这喧哗的波涛起伏的海中。”

“Things look phantastic in this dimness of the dusk—the spires whose bases are lost in the dark and tree-tops like blots of ink. I shall wait for the morning and wake up to see thy city in the light.

在这个黄昏的朦胧里，好些东西看来都有些幻相——尖塔的底层在黑暗里消失了，树顶像墨水的斑点似的。我将等待着黎明，而当我醒来的时候，就会看到在光明里的您的城市。”

“I have suffered and despaired and known death and I am glad that I am in this great world.

我曾经受苦过，曾经失望过，曾经体会过“死亡”，于是我以我在这伟大的世界里为乐。”

“There are tracts in my life that are bare and silent. They are the open spaces where my busy days had their light and air.

在我的一生里，也有贫乏和沉默的地域。它们是我忙碌的日子得到日光与空气的几片空旷之地。”

“Release me from my unfulfilled past clinging to me from behind making death difficult.

我的未完成的过去，从后边缠绕到我身上，使我难于死去，请从它那里释放了我吧。

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“Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

“我相信你的爱，”让这句话做我的最后的话。”