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In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket,and said:"Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others,And be wary,choose wisely!For only one of them is valuable."
在生命之初，一位仙女帶著籃子走來，對一位年輕人說道：“這里有幾份禮物，你可以從中選一份，留下其它的。你要小心，做一個明智的選擇；啊，你要明智地進行選擇！因為這里面只有一份禮物是珍貴的。”
The gifts were five: Fame, Love, Riches, Pleasure, Death.The youth, said, eagerly:"There is no need to consider"; and he chose Pleasure.
一共有五份禮物：名聲，愛情，財富，快樂，還有死亡。年輕人迫不及待地說：“沒有必要多想。”他選了快樂。
He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in . But each in its turn was short-liyed and disappointing, vain and empty; and each, departing, mocked him .In the end he said:"These years i have wasted.If i could but choose again, I would choose wisely."
此后他就開始步入世界，追逐年輕人所喜愛的快樂。然而每一種快樂都是如此短暫，令人感到空虛和失望。每當一種快樂棄他而去時，還要把他嘲弄一番。最后，年輕人感嘆道：“這些年我都浪費了。如果我可以再選一次，我一定會做一個明智的選擇。”
The fairy appeared, and said:"Four of the gifts remain.choose once more: and oh, remember--time is flying, and only one of them is precious."
這時仙女又出現了，她說：“這里還有四份禮物。再選一次吧。噢，記住時間飛逝，而其中只有一件是珍貴的。”
The man considered long,then chose Love;and did not mark the tears that rose in the fairy's eyes.After many,many years the man sat by a coffin,in an empty home.And he communed with himself,saying:"One by one they have gone away and leftme;and now she lies here,the dearest and the last.Desolation after desolation has swept over me;but each hour of happiness the treacherous trader,Love,sold me i have paid a thousand hours of grief!Out of my heart of hearts i curse him!"
他思考了很久，最終選擇了愛情；他沒有注意到仙女眼里泛起的淚光。許多許多年之后，這個人坐在一口棺材旁邊，屋子里空蕩蕩的。他自言自語道：“他們一個一個地走了，只剩下我。現在，她就躺在這兒，我最親愛的人兒，我最后的親人。孤獨一次又一次把我包圍。都是因為愛情這個陰狡詐的商人，他出售給我的每個甜蜜的小時，我現在都要用數千個小時的悲傷來償還！我從心底里詛咒他！”
