http://botaksim.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html - 生命颂

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real !   Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

生命頌 ——郎費羅
（翻譯-北窗）

　　別在幽怨的詩句裡沉吟：
　　“生命不過是一場幻夢！”
　　靈魂嗜睡，就等於死去，
　　真命與表相其實不同。

　　　生命是真切的！生命是莊嚴的！
　　　它的歸宿決不是荒墳；
　　“你本是塵土，必歸於塵土”，
　　　這是指軀殼，而非靈魂。

　　　我們注定的命運與道路
　　　不是享樂，亦非受苦；
 　　而在於行動，在每個明天
　　　都跨越今朝，邁出新步。

　　韶光流逝，創造無窮；
　 此心如鼙鼓般悶聲敲動，
　　脈搏是熱血在時刻奔湧
　　哪怕正大步邁向墳地送終。

　　世界是一片遼闊的戰場，
　　人生是到處扎寨安營；
　　莫學那聽人驅策的啞畜，
　　做一個威武善戰的英雄！

　　別指望將來，無論有多可愛！
　　更要把已逝的過去掩埋！
　　行動吧－－趁著活生生的現在！
　　胸中有赤心，頭上有真宰！

　　偉人的生平啟示我們：
　　此生能夠活得高尚，
　　離去時留下足跡一行，
　　在時間的平沙上；

　　也許我們中有位兄弟
　　航行在生命的茫茫大海，
　　涉險沉船，瀕臨絕望，
　　偶遇這行足跡會振作起來。

　　那麼，讓我們起身乾吧，
　　對任何命運都要敢於擔待；
　　不斷進取，永遠追求，
　　既躬身耕作，亦壯志滿懷。