| 内容 | It is not growing like a tree
 要成就人生,
 In bulk doth make man better be;
 不必如巨树,木秀于林;
 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
 不必如橡树,经年不倒,
 To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
 亦难逃枯朽之命;
 A lily of a day
 五月之百合,
 Is fairer far in may,
 绽放一日,便有万种风情;
 Although it fall and die that night—
 纵然是夜凋零,
 It was the plant and flower of light.
 却是光华的落英;
 In small proportions we just beauties see;
 于细微处领略美丽,
 And in short measures life may perfect be.
 于残缺处完满生命。
 
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