<p class="ql-block">作者：紀(jì)伯倫</p> <p class="ql-block">Your children are not your children.</p><p class="ql-block">你的兒女，其實不是你的兒女。</p><p class="ql-block">They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.</p><p class="ql-block">他們是生命對于自身渴望而誕生的孩子。</p><p class="ql-block">They come through you but not from you,</p><p class="ql-block">他們借助你來到這個世界，卻非因你而來，</p><p class="ql-block">And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.</p><p class="ql-block">他們在你身旁，卻并不屬于你。</p><p class="ql-block">You may give them your love but not your thoughts,</p><p class="ql-block">你可以給予他們的是你的愛，卻不是你的想法，</p><p class="ql-block">For they have their own thoughts.</p><p class="ql-block">因為他們有自己的思想。</p><p class="ql-block">You may house their bodies but not their souls,</p><p class="ql-block">你可以庇護的是他們的身體，卻不是他們的靈魂，</p><p class="ql-block">For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.</p><p class="ql-block">因為他們的靈魂屬于明天，屬于你做夢也無法達到的明天。</p><p class="ql-block">You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you，</p><p class="ql-block">你可以拼盡全力，變得像他們一樣，卻不要讓他們變得和你一樣，</p><p class="ql-block">For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.</p><p class="ql-block">因為生命不會后退，也不在過去停留。</p><p class="ql-block">You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.</p><p class="ql-block">你是弓，兒女是從你那里射出的箭。</p><p class="ql-block">The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,</p><p class="ql-block">弓箭手望著未來之路上的箭靶，</p><p class="ql-block">and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.</p><p class="ql-block">他用盡力氣將你拉開，使他的箭射得又快又遠。</p><p class="ql-block">Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness，</p><p class="ql-block">懷著快樂的心情，在弓箭手的手中彎曲吧，</p><p class="ql-block">For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.</p><p class="ql-block">因為他愛一路飛翔的箭，也愛無比穩(wěn)定的弓。</p> <p class="ql-block">作者簡介</p><p class="ql-block">紀(jì)伯倫（1883—1931），黎巴嫩詩人、散文家、畫家。他是阿拉伯近代文學(xué)史上第一位使用散文詩體的作家。主要作品有散文詩集《先知》《淚與笑》《沙與沫》等。他的作品大多以“愛”與“美”為主題，通過大膽的想象和象征的手法，表達深沉的情感和高遠的理想。</p> <p class="ql-block">感恩！感謝！</p><p class="ql-block">圖片源于網(wǎng)絡(luò)</p>