When despair for the world grows in me

当对世事的绝望在我心中升起时，

and I wake in the night at the least sound

夜里一丁点儿声响都能叫醒我。

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

担心我的生活和孩子们的生活会怎样，

I go and lie down where the wood drake

我起身入林，寻一处水边躺下，德雷克木鸭

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

在水上怡然休憩，大野鹭悠然觅食。

I come into the peace of wild things

我闯入野外世界的宁静，

who do not tax their lives with forethought

这里谁也不会用对明天的忧虑来减损

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

此刻。我沉静如止水。

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

我伸手去摸头顶上耀眼如白昼的星星

waiting with their light. For a time

它们正光芒万丈地等待着。有那么一会儿

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

我栖息于天地间的从容，自由了。