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 ofgreen,

While dimpling eddies played between.

Such be your gentle motion,

Till life’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。

夏天裏我看到兩條細流，

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，

直到生命脈博的最後一跳，

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 GardinerCalkins Brainard