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When the creation was new and all the stars shone in their first splendour, the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang `Oh, the picture of perfection! the joy unalloyed!'
But one cried of a sudden---`It seems that somewhere there is a break in the chain of light and one of the stars has been lost.'
The golden string of their harp snapped, their song stopped, and they cried in dismay---`Yes, that lost star was the best, she was the glory of all heavens!'
From that day the search is unceasing for her, and the cry goes on from one to the other that in her the world has lost its one joy!
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Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile and whisper among themselves---`Vain is this seeking! unbroken perfection is over all!'
当鸿蒙初辟，繁星第一次射出灿烂的光辉，从神在天上集会，唱着：“呵，完美的画图，完全的快乐！”
有一位神忽然叫起来了——“光链里仿佛断了一环，一颗星星走失了。”
他们金琴的弦子猛然折断了，他们的歌声停止了，惊惶地叫着——“对了，那颗走失的星星是最美的，她是诸天的光荣！”
从那天起，他们不住地寻找她，众口相传地说，因为她丢了，世界失去了一种快乐。
只在严静的夜里，众星微笑着互相低语说——“寻找是无用的，无缺的完美正笼盖着一切！”
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79.
If it is not my portion to meet thee in this life then let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight---let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.
As my days pass in the crowded market of this world and my hands grow full with the daily profits, let me ever feel that I have gained nothing---let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.
When I sit by the roadside, tired and panting, when I spread my bed low in the dust, let me ever feel that the long journey is still before me---let me not forget a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.
When my rooms have been decked out and the flutes sound and the laughter there is loud, let me ever feel that I have not invited thee to my house---let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.
假如我今生无份遇到你，就让我永远感到恨不相逢——让我念念不忘，让我在醒时梦中都怀带着这悲哀的苦痛。
当我的日子在世界的闹市中度过，我的双手满捧着每日的赢利的时候，让我永远觉得我是一无所获——让我念念不忘，让我在醒时梦中都怀带着这悲哀的苦痛。
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当我坐在路边，疲乏喘息，当我在尘土中铺设卧具，让我永远记着前面还有悠悠的长路——让我念念不忘，让我在醒时梦中都怀带着这悲哀的苦痛。
当我的屋子装饰好了，箫笛吹起，欢笑声喧的时候，让我永远觉得我还没有请你光临——让我念念不忘，让我在醒时梦中都怀带着这悲哀的苦痛。
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80.
I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn uselessly roaming in the sky, O my sun ever-glorious! Thy touch has not yet melted my vapour, making me one with thy light, and thus I count months and years separated from thee.
If this be thy wish and if this be thy play, then take this fleeting emptiness of mine, paint it with colours, gild it with gold, float it on the wanton wind and spread it in varied wonders.
And again when it shall be thy wish to end this play at night, I shall melt and vanish away in the dark, or it may be in a smile of the white morning, in a coolness of purity transparent.
我象一片秋天的残云，无主地在空中飘荡，呵，我的永远光耀的太阳！你的摩触还没有蒸化了我的水气，使我与你的光明合一，因此我计算着和你分离的修长的年月。
假如这是你的愿望，假如这是你的游戏，就请把我这流逝的空虚染上颜色，镀上金辉，让它在狂风中飘浮，舒卷成种种的奇观。
而且假如你愿意在夜晚结束了这场游戏，我就在黑暗中，或在烂白晨光的微笑中，在净化的清凉中，溶化消失。
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81.
On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time. But it is never lost, my lord. Thou hast taken every moment of my life in thine own hands.
Hidden in the heart of things thou art nourishing seeds into sprouts, buds into blossoms, and ripening flowers into fruitfulness.
I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagined all work had ceased. In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers.
在许多闲散的日子，我悼惜着虚度了的光阴。但是江阴并没有虚度，我 的主。你掌握了我生命里寸寸的光阴。
你潜藏在万物的心里，培育着种子发芽，蓓蕾绽红，花落结实。
我困乏了，在闲榻上睡眠，想象一切工作都已停歇。早晨醒来，我发现我的园里，却开遍了异蕊奇花。
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82.
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord. There is none to count thy minutes.
Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers. Thou knowest how to wait.
Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.
We have no time to lose, and having no time we must scramble for a chances. We are too poor to be late.
And thus it is that time goes by while I give it to every querulous man who claims it, and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.
你手里的光阴是无限的，我的主。你的分秒是无法计算的。
夜去明来，时代象花开花落。你晓得怎样来等待。
你的世纪，一个接着一个，来完成一朵小小的野花。
我们的光阴不能浪费，因为没有时间，我们必须争取机缘。我们太穷苦了，决不可迟到。
因此，在我把时间让给每一个性急的，向我索要时间的人，我的时间就虚度了，最后你的神坛上就没有一点祭品。
一天过去，我赶忙前来，怕你的门已经关闭；但是我发现时间还有余裕。
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83.
Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck with my tears of sorrow.
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The stars have wrought their anklets of light to deck thy feet, but mine will hang upon thy breast.
Wealth and fame come from thee and it is for thee to give or to withhold them. But this my sorrow is absolutely mine own, and when I bring it to thee as my offering thou rewardest me with thy grace.
圣母呵，我要把我悲哀的眼泪穿成珠链，挂在你的颈上。
星星把光明做成足镯，来装扮你的双足，但是我的珠链要挂在你的胸前。
名利自你而来，也全凭你的予取。但这悲哀却完全是我自己的，当我把它当作祭品献给你的时候，你就以你的恩慈来酬谢我。
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84.
It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky.
It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence all nights from star to star and becomes lyric among rustling leaves in rainy darkness of July.
It is this overspreading pain that deepens into loves and desires, into sufferings and joy in human homes; and this it is that ever melts and flows in songs through my poet's heart.
离愁弥漫世界，在无际的天空中生出无数的情境。
就是这离愁整夜地悄望星辰，在七月阴雨之中，萧萧的树籁变成抒情的诗歌。
就是这笼压弥漫的痛苦，加深而成为爱，欲，而成为人间的苦乐；就是它永远通过诗人的心灵，融化流涌而成为诗歌。
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85.
When the warriors came out first from their master's hall, where had they hid their power? Where were their armour and their arms?
They looked poor and helpless, and the arrows were showered upon them on the day they came out from their master's hall.
When the warriors marched back again to their master's hall where did they hide their power?
They had dropped the sword and dropped the bow and the arrow; peace was on their foreheads, and they had left the fruits of their life behind them on the day they marched back again to their master's hall.
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当战士们从他们主公的明堂里刚走出来，他们的武力藏在哪里呢？他们的甲胄和干戈藏在哪里呢？
他们显得无助、可怜，当他们从他们主公的明堂走出的那一天，如雨的箭矢向着他们飞射。
当战士们整队走回他们主公的明堂里的时候，他们的武力藏在哪里呢？
他们放下了刀剑和弓矢；和平在他们的额上放光，当他们整队走回他们主公的明堂的那一天，他们把他们生命的果实留在后面了。
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86.
Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home.
The night is dark and my heart is fearful---yet I will take up the lamp, open my gates and bow to him my welcome. It is thy messenger who stands at my door.
I will worship him placing at his feet the treasure of my heart.
He will go back with his errand done, leaving a dark shadow on my morning; and in my desolate home only my forlorn self will remain as my last offering to thee.
死亡，你的仆人，来到我的门前。他渡过不可知的海洋临到我家，来传达你的召令。
夜色沉黑，我心中畏惧——但是我要端起灯来，开起门来，鞠躬欢迎他。因为站在我门前的是你的使者。
我要含泪地合掌礼拜他。我要把我心中的财产，放在他脚前，来礼拜他。
他的使命完成了就要回去，在我的晨光中留下了阴影；在我萧条的家里，只剩下孤独的我，作为最后献你的祭品。
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87.
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not.
My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained.
But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have to come to thy door.
I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face.
I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish---no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears.
Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.
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在无望的希望中，我在房里的每一个角落找她；我找不到她。
我的房子很小，一旦丢了东西就永远找不回来。
但是你的房子是无边无际的，我的主，为着找她，我来到了你的面前。
我站在你薄暮金色的天穹下，向你抬起渴望的眼。
我来到了永恒的边涯，在这里万物不灭——无论是希望，是幸福，或是从泪眼中望见的人面。
呵，把我空虚的生命浸到这海洋里吧，跳进这最深的完满里吧。让我在宇宙的完整里，感觉一次那失去的温馨的接触吧。
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Deity of the ruined temple! The broken strings of Vina sing no more your praise. The bells in the evening proclaim not your time of worship. The air is still and silent about you.
In your desolate dwelling comes the vagrant spring breeze. It brings the tidings of flowers---the flowers that for your worship are offered no more.
Your worshipper of old wanders ever longing for favour still refused. In the eventide, when fires and shadows mingle with the gloom of dust, he wearily comes back to the ruined temple with hunger in his heart.
Many a festival day comes to you in silence, deity of the ruined temple. Many a night of worship goes away with lamp unlit.
Many new images are built by masters of cunning art and carried to the holy stream of oblivion when their time is come.
Only the deity of the ruined temple remains unworshipped in deathless neglect.
破庙里的神呵！七弦琴的断线不再弹唱赞美你的诗歌。晚钟也不再宣告礼拜你的时间。你周围的空气是寂静的。
流蔼的春风来到你荒凉的居所。它带来了香花的消息——就是那素来供养你的香花，现在却无人来呈献了。
你往昔的礼拜者，漂泊流浪，永远在企望那还未得到的恩典。黄昏来到，灯光明灭于尘影之中，他困乏地带着饥饿的心回到这破庙里来。
对你来说，许多佳节都在静默中来到，破庙的神呵。许多礼拜之夜，也在无火无灯中度过了。
精巧的艺术家，造了许多新的神象，当他们的末日来到了，便被抛入遗忘的圣河里。
只有破庙的神遗留在无人礼拜的，不死的冷淡之中。
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89.
No more noisy, loud words from me---such is my master's will. Henceforth I deal in whispers. The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.
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Men hasten to the King's market. All the buyers and sellers are there. But I have my untimely leave in the middle of the day, in the thick of work.
Let then the flowers come out in my garden, though it is not their time; and let the midday bees strike up their lazy hum.
Full many an hour have I spent in the strife of the good and the evil, but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him; and I know not why is this sudden call to what useless inconsequence!
我不再高谈阔论了——这是我主的意旨。从那时起我轻声细语。我心里的话要用歌曲低唱出来。
人们急急忙忙地到国王的市场上去，买卖的人都在那里。但在工作正忙的正午，我就早早地离开。
那就让花朵在我的园中开放，虽然花时未到；让蜜蜂在中午奏起它们慵懒的嗡鸣。
我曾把充分的时间，用在理欲交战里，但如今是我暇日游侣的雅兴，把我的心拉到他那里去；我也不知道这忽然的召唤，会引到什么无用的结局。
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90.
On the day when death will knock at thy door what wilt thou offer to him?
Oh, I will set before my guest the full vessel of my life---I will never let him go with empty hands.
All the sweet vintage of all my autumn days and summer nights, all the earnings and gleanings of my busy life will I place before him at the close of my days when death will knock at my door.
当死神来叩你们的时候，你将以什么供献他呢？
呵，我要在我客人面前，摆上我的满斟的生命之怀——我决不让他空手回去。
我一切的秋日和夏夜的丰美的收获，我勿促的生命中的一切获得和收藏，在我临终，死神来叩我的门的时候，我都要摆在他的面前。
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91.
O thou the last fulfilment of life, Death, my death, come and whisper to me!
Day after day I have kept watch for thee; for thee have I borne the joys and pangs of life.
All that I am, that I have, that I hope and all my love have ever flowed towards thee in depth of secrecy. One final glance from thine eyes and my life will be ever thine own.
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The flowers have been woven and the garland is ready for the bridegroom. After the wedding the bride shall leave her home and meet her lord alone in the solitude of night.
呵，你这生命最后的完成，死亡，我的死亡，来对我低语吧！
我天天地守望着你；为你，我忍受着生命中的苦乐。
我的一切存在，一切所有，一切希望，和一切的爱，总在深深的秘密中向你奔流。你的眼睛向我最后一盼，我的生命就永远是你的。
花环已为新郎编好。婚礼行过，新娘就要离家，在静夜里和她的主人独对了。
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92.
I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes.
Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains.
When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of the moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world with its careless treasures. Rare is its lowliest seat, rare is its meanest of lives.
Things that I longed for in vain and things that I got---let them pass. Let me but truly possess the things that I ever spurned and overlooked.
我知道这日子将要来到，当我眼中的人世渐渐消失，生命默默地向我道别，把最后的帘幕拉过我的眼前。
但是星辰将在夜中守望，晨曦仍旧升起，时间象海波的汹涌，激荡着欢乐与哀伤。
当我想到我的时间的终点，时间的隔栏便破裂了，在死的光明中，我看见了你的世界和这世界里弃置的珍宝。最低的座位是极其珍奇的，最小的生物也是世间少有的。
我追求而未得到和我已经得到的东西——让它们过去吧。只让我真正地据有了那些我所轻视和忽略的东西。
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93.
I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers! I bow to you all and take my departure.
Here I give back the keys of my door---and I give up all claims to my house. I only ask for last kind words from you.
We were neighbours for long, but I received more than I could give. Now the day has dawned and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out. A summons has come and I am ready for my journey.
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我已经请了假。弟兄们，祝我一种平安吧！我向你们大家鞠了躬就启程了。
我把我门上的钥匙交还——我把房子的所有权都有放弃了。我只请求你们最后的几名好话。
我们做过很久的邻居，但是我接受的多，给与的少。现在天已破晓，我黑暗屋角的灯光已灭。召命已来，我就准备启行了。
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94.
At this time of my parting, wish me good luck, my friends! The sky is flushed with the dawn and my path lies beautiful.
Ask not what I have with me to take there. I start on my journey with empty hands and expectant heart.
