維克多·雨果
What matter it though life uncertain be to all?
What though its goal be never reached?
What though it fall and flee—
Have we not each a soul?
Be like the bird that on a bough too frail
To bear him gaily swings.
He carols though the slender branches fail—
He knows he has wings!
何必去管它,人生總是無常?
有什么關系壯志難成?
何必計較蹉跌與敗逃——
我們豈不是各自都有靈魂?
像那鳥兒在柔弱的枝梢,
經(jīng)不起它歡樂地跳躍;
雖然那細枝折斷了,它仍歌唱——
它自知有翅膀!endprint