以下文字摘录自诗选《生如夏花》：
我要唱的歌，直到今天还没有唱出。每天我总在乐器上调理弦索。时间还没有到来，歌词也未曾填好：只有愿望的痛苦在我心中。花蕊还未开放，只有风从旁叹息走过。我没有看见过他的脸，也没有听见过他的声音：我只听见他轻蹑的足音，从我房前路上走过。悠长的一天消磨在为他在地上铺设座位，但是灯火还未点上，我不能请他进来。我生活在和他相会的希望中，但这相会的日子还没有来到。
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before myhouse.The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor; but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not vet.
我的欲望很多，我的哭泣也很可怜，但你永远用坚决的拒绝来拯救我，这刚强的慈悲已经紧密地交织在我的生命里。你使我一天一天地更配领受你自动的简单伟大的赐予——这天空和光明，这躯体和生命与心灵——把我从极欲的危险中拯救了出来。有时候我懈怠地捱延，有时候我急忙警觉寻找我的路向，但是你却忍心地躲藏起来。你不断地拒绝我，从软弱动摇的欲望的危险中拯救了我，使我一天一天地更配得你完全的接纳。
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has beenwrought into my life through and through.Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked——this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind——saving me from perils of overmuch desire.There are times when I languidly linger and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal; but cruelly thou hidest thyself from before me.Day by day thou art making me worthy of thy full acceptance by refusing me ever and anon, saving me from perils of weak, uncertain desire.
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