Life and Song生活和歌唱

Life and Song

　　(生活和歌唱)

If life were caught by a clarionet, 如果生活與樂管同奏，

And a wild heart, throbbing in the reed, 狂熱的心和簧片共振;

Should thrill its joy and trill its fret,

生活中的歡樂與煩惱，

And utter its heart in every deed, 全然是心靈的顫動。

Then would this breathing clarionet 當呼吸與簧管同步，

Type what the poet fain would be; 詩人將欣然命筆;

For none o' the singers ever yet 儘管沒有一個歌手，

Has wholly lived his minstrelsy, 用他畢生吟唱。

Or clearly sung his true, true thought, 或純粹唱他真實的思考，

Or utterly bodied forth his life, 或完全唱他生命之形體，

Or out of life and song has wrought 或唱生命的消逝，

The perfect one of man and wife; 或唱一個男人和妻子完美的功績

Or lived and sung, that Life and Song 生活和歌唱，生命與歌，

Might each express the other's all,一切都可以彼此表達，

Careless if life or art were long 要是生命或藝術被長期忽視，

Since both were one, to stand or fall: 那麼好壞都一樣:

So that the wonder struck the crowd, 所以羣衆創造奇蹟，

Who shouted it about the land: 他們喚醒了土地：

His song was only living aloud, 他的歌僅僅是高亢一曲的生活，

His work, a singing with his hand! 他的勞作就是他用手唱出的歌!