--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利.沃茲渥斯.朗費羅
The day is cold,and dark,and dreary;
It rains,and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold and dark and dreary;
It rains and the wind is never weary;
My though still cling to the moldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still,sad heart!And cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
天冷、陰暗、沉悶；
下著雨,風也刮個不停；
藤還攀附著頹垣殘壁,
每來一陣狂風,枯葉附落紛紛,
天真是陰暗而沉悶.
我的生活寒冷、陰郁、沉悶；
下著雨,風也刮個不停；
我的思想還糾纏著消逝的往事,
大風里,我的青春希望相繼熄滅,
天真是陰暗而沉悶.
安靜吧,憂傷的心!別再悔恨；
烏云后面太陽依然輝煌燦爛；
你命運和大家的一樣,
每個人一生都得逢上陰雨,
有些日子必然陰暗而沉悶.
Henry David Thoreau/享利.大衛(wèi).梭羅
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不論你的生活如何卑賤,你要面對它生活,不要躲避它,更別用惡言咒罵它.它不像你那樣壞.你最富有的時候,倒是看似最窮.愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點.你要愛你的生活,盡管它貧窮.甚至在一個濟貧院里,你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候.夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上,像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前,積雪同在早春融化.我只看到,一個從容的人,在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣,生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想.城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人,我看,倒往往是過著最獨立不羈的生活.也許因為他們很偉大,所以受之無愧.大多數(shù)人以為他們是超然的,不靠城鎮(zhèn)來支援他們；可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當?shù)氖侄蝸韺Ω渡?他們是毫不超脫的,毋寧是不體面的.視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧!不要找新的花樣,無論是新的朋友或新的衣服,來麻煩你自己.找舊的,回到那里去.萬物不變,是我們在變.你的衣服可以賣掉,但要保留你的思想.