如果你因失去了太阳而流泪，那么你也将失去群星了。
if you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

　静静地听，我的心呀，听那世界的低语，这是它对你求爱的表示呀。
listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.

神呀，我的那些愿望真是愚傻呀，它们杂在你的歌声中喧叫着呢。让我只是静听着吧。
my wishes are fools, they shout across thy song, my master. let me but listen.

　我不能选择那最好的。
是那最好的选择我。
i cannot choose the best.
　　the best chooses me.

　我的心把她的波浪在世界的海岸上冲激着，以热泪在上边写着她的题记：“我爱你。”
my heart beats her waves at the shore of the world and writes upon it her signature in tears with the words, "i love thee."

生命从世界得到资产，爱情使它得到价值。
life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

鸟儿愿为一朵云。
云儿愿为一只鸟。
the bird wishes it were a cloud.
　　the cloud wishes it were a bird.

　我说不出这心为什么那样默默地颓丧着。
是为了它那不曾要求，不曾知道，不曾记得的小小的需要。
i cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence.
　　it is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

群树如表示大地的愿望似的，踮起脚来向天空窥望。
the trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.

　你微微地笑着，不同我说什么话。而我觉得，为了这个，我已等待得久了。
　　you smiled and talked to me of nothing and i felt that for this i had been waiting long.

　世界在踌躇之心的琴弦上跑过去，奏出忧郁的乐声。
the world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness.

神从创造中找到他自己。
god finds himself by creating.

　谢谢神，我不是一个权力的轮子，而是被压在这轮子下的活人之一。
i thank thee that i am none of the wheels of power but i am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it.

决不要害怕刹那－－永恒之声这样唱着。
never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.