Wrentham, Massachusetts, is associated with nearly all of my joys and sorrows. For many years Red Farm, by King Philip's Pond, the home of Mr. J. E. Chamberlin and his family, was my home. I remember with deepest gratitude the kindness of these dear friends and the happy days I spent with them. The sweet companionship of their children meant much to me. I joined in all their sports and rambles through the woods and frolics in the water. The prattle of the little ones and their pleasure in the stories I told them of elf and gnome, of hero and wily bear, are pleasant things to remember. Mr. Chamberlin initiated me into the mysteries of tree and wild-flower, until with the little ear of love I heard the flow of sap in the oak, and saw the sun glint from leaf to leaf.
可以說，馬薩諸塞州的蘭瑟姆是一個幾乎涵蓋了我所有喜悅和悲傷的地方。很多年來，紅色農莊——菲利普國王池塘邊錢伯林先生和他的家人的住所，都曾是我的家。我由衷地感謝這些朋友們的仁慈和慷慨，我同他們在一起度過了最美好的時光。對我而言，同他們的子女建立起的友誼尤顯珍貴。他們所有的活動我都參加，我們還在林中漫步，在水中嬉戲。我為他們講述精靈和土地神、英雄和狡猾的黑熊的故事，同這些小孩子們談天說地，感受著他們的快樂，這對我的確是一種令人愉快的回憶。錢伯倫先生教我辨認神秘的樹種和野花，直到我的耳朵似乎聽到了橡樹體內樹液流動的聲音，我的眼睛似乎看到了樹葉間閃爍的陽光。那景象如同這樣的詩句——
Thus it is that Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth,
根，即使被封存在暗無天日的泥土中
Share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive
依舊會分享到樹冠的喜悅，而且會想象著
Of sunshine and wide air and winged things,
陽光、遼闊的天宇以及林間的飛鳥，
By sympathy of nature, so do I gave evidence of things unseen.
自然和諧有序，我亦順應天地
It seems to me that there is in each of us a capacity to comprehend the impressions and emotions which have been experienced by mankind from the beginning. Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense—a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one.
在我看來，自人類出現以來，我們每一個人的內心深處就已經具備了感知種種情緒的經驗。在每一個人的潛意識里，都會存留有關綠色土地和潺潺流水的記憶，即使失明和失聰，也無法剝奪祖先賜予人類的這份禮物。我們通常會將這種源自遺傳的特質稱之為第六感——一種集視覺、聽覺、觸覺于一身的“心靈的感覺”。
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