雙語美文：在闊葉林

The same leaves over and over again!

They fall from giving shade above

To make one texture of faded brown

And fit the earth like a leather glove.

同樣的葉子，一回又一回!

從投下樹陰的高處飄落，

堆積成枯褐的紋理，

仿佛給大地戴上了皮手套。

Before the leaves can mount again

To fill the trees with another shade,

They must go down past things coming up.

They must go down into the dark decayed.

葉子再次爬上高枝

為大樹添上另一重樹陰之前，

它們必須墜落，與向上的一切擦肩。

它們必須墜落，進入黑暗，腐化。

They must be pierced by flowers and put

Beneath the feet of dancing flowers.

However it is in some other world

I know that this is the way in ours.

它們必然為花朵所穿透，

躺在迎風招展的花朵腳下。

而在另一生境，

我知道，這也是我們的歷程。