我走到屋后山坡

I go to the mountain side

砍伐幼树，

of the house to cut saplings,

为山巅积雪

and clear a view to snow

开辟视野。但当我举起锯子抬头，

on the mountain. But when I look up,

看见最高枝头

saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in

紧攥着一个鸟巢。

the uppermost branches.

那棵我不砍。

I don't cut that one.

其余的也未砍伐。

I don't cut the others either.

忽然间，每棵树上

Suddenly, in every tree,

都藏着看不见的巢穴

an unseen nest

恰似山峦

where a mountain

本该矗立之处。

would be.