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大地呀，我到你岸上时是一个陌生人，住在你屋内时是一个宾客，离开你的门时是一个朋友。
I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your house as a guest, I leave your door as a friend, my earth.

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当我去时，让我的思想到你那里来，如那夕阳的余光，映在沉默的星天的边上。
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the after glow of sunset at the margin¹ of starry² silence.

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在我的心头燃点起那休憩的黄昏星吧，然后让黑夜向我微语着爱情。
Light in my heart the evening star of rest and then let the night whisper to me of love.

whisper v. 低声说、耳语

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我是一个在黑暗中的孩子。
我从夜的被单里向您伸出我的双手，母亲。
I am a child in the dark.
I stretch my hands through the coverlet of night for thee, Mother.

coverlet n. 被单、床单　　thee n. you（宾格）的古用法

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白天的工作完了。把我的脸掩藏在您的臂间吧，母亲。
让我入梦吧。
The day of work is done. Hide my face in your arms, Mother.
Let me dream.

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集会时的灯光，点了很久，会散时，灯便立刻灭了。
The lamp of meeting burns long; it goes out in a moment at the parting.

go out 熄灭　　in a moment 立刻

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当我死时，世界呀，请在你的沉默中，替我留着“我已经爱过了”这句话吧。
One word keep for me in thy silence, O World, when I am dead, I have loved.

thy pron. your（你的）的古用法

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我们在热爱世界时便生活在这世界上。
We live in this world when we love it.

279
让死者有那不朽的名，但让生者有那不朽的爱。
Let the dead have the immortality³ of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

immortality n. 不朽

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我看见你，像那半醒的婴孩在黎明的微光里看见他的母亲，于是微笑而又睡去了。
I have seen thee as the half-awakened child sees his mother in the dusk of the dawn and then smiles and sleeps again.