I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged by the rising sun,
And mingled into one:
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the west.

I saw two summer currents
Flow smoothly to their meeting,
And join their course, with silent force,
In peace each other greeting;
Calm was their course through banks of green,
While dimpling eddies played between.

Such be your gentle motion,
Till lifes’s last pulse shall beat;
Like summer’s beam, and summer’s stream,
Flat on, in joy, to meet
A calmer sea, where storms shall cease,
A purer sky, where all is peace.

－John Gardiner Calkins Brainard



寧靜之戀

拂曉時我看到有兩朵雲，
被剛升起的太陽染紅，
天明時他們浮游而去，
倏忽間溶成了一片，
我想，那早晨的雲有福了
心頭甜甜地移向西天。

夏天裡我看到兩條細流，
平滑地流向匯合點，

他們靜靜地互相問候，
有股默默的力量使他們合流，
在綠色的兩岸間寧靜地流去，
有圍旋的渦流在河中嬉戲。

這如同你的溫存，
直到生命脈搏的最後一跳，
還像朝雲和細流一樣，
在喜樂中浮游而去，要迎接：
一個沒有風暴的寧靜海，
一個平安明亮的晴空。

－John Gardiner Calkins Brainard