yilin - 2008-6-24 10:40:00
Hold Fast Your Dreams
By Louise Driscoll
Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And, sheltered so,
May thrive and grow
Where doubt and fear are not.
O keep a place apart,
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go!
Think still of lovely things that are not true.
Let wish and magic work at will in you.
Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe!
Forget the calm that lies
In disillusioned eyes.
Though we all know that we must die,
Yet you and I
May walk like gods and be
Even now at home in immortality.
We see so many ugly things –
Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings
We know, alas! We know
How quickly fade
The color in the west,
The bloom upon the flower,
The bloom upon the breast
And youth’s blind hour.
Yet keep within your heart
A place apart
Where little dreams may go,
May thrive and grow.
Hold fast -- hold fast your dreams!
握紧你的梦想
〔美国〕路易丝•德里斯科尔
握紧你的梦想！
悄悄将它
揣入心房
它萌芽、掩蔽的地方，
在那里，
它繁茂、生长，
怀疑与恐惧被远远阻挡。
哦，辟一小块地方，
任小小梦想
在心中自由舒张！
悄然咀嚼未必成真的甜蜜，
愿望与神奇一同伸展。
学着视而不见，对于悲伤。有时，我们需要乔装！
别在意醒悟者眼中的
淡然。
我们虽都将故逝，
可你和我依然
能以像神一样前往，
获得永生，就在当下时光。
见过太多丑恶，
欺骗、错失与荒唐
哦，我们深谙，
太阳会
西下，
花儿凋零
意阑珊，
岁月终难驻，青春易逝永不返，
可是心中，
心中仍凛然留着一块地方，
任它萌芽，
繁茂，生长。
握紧——握紧你的梦想！
（何朝阳 译）