The Peace of Wild Things

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

大自然的安寧

當我內(nèi)心變得絕望
我在寂靜的午夜醒來，
擔憂我和我孩子們的生活，
我走出家門，在林中躺下
美麗的野鴨在湖中安憩，巨大的鷺鷥在覓食。
我融入大自然的安寧
這里的生命不會擔憂它們的生活。
我面對寧靜的湖面。
我感到白晝般耀眼的星星
正在等待著它們的光明。
這時，我安息于世界的恩典之中，我自由了。