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好睡
我一定得知道：谁从婴儿的眼睛里偷走了睡眠？母亲把水罐抱在腰间，要到附近村子里去打水。当时是中午，孩子们的游戏时间已结束，池塘里的鸭子也沉默下来。牧童躺在榕树下睡着了，仙鹤庄重而安静地站在芒果林附近的沼泽里。与此同时，睡眠神偷来了，从婴儿的眼睛里抢走了睡意，飞走了。当妈妈回来时，发现她的宝宝四肢并用、在房间里爬来爬去。
谁从我们孩子的眼睛里偷走了睡眠？我一定要知道，我必须找到她，并把她锁起来。我要到那个黢黑的洞穴去看看，那里有一条小溪，穿过巨石孔，有涓涓细流漫过长着皱纹的古石。
我得去巴库拉树林那昏昏欲睡的树荫下寻找，在那里，鸽子在角落里咕咕叫着，仙女的踝铃在繁星点点的寂静中叮当作响。
到了晚上，我要窥视萤火虫在浪费它们的光闪，萧萧竹林深处的窃窃私语，我要问每一个遇见的生灵：“有谁能告诉我，偷睡眠的人住在哪里？”
谁从婴儿的眼睛里偷走了睡眠？我一定要知道。如果我能抓住她，不该好好地教训她一顿吗？我要直捣她的巢穴，看看她把偷来的睡眠藏在了哪里。我会把它全部夺回，带转家去。
我要绑紧她的两翼，把她放在河边，然后让她拿着芦苇在灯心草和睡莲中间玩钓鱼的游戏。傍晚市集已过，村里的孩子们坐在母亲的膝上时，晚鸟便在她耳边嘲弄地说：“你要偷走谁的睡眠呢？”
英文译本
SLEEP-STEALER
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know.
Clasping her pitcher to her waist, mother went to fetch water from the village near by.
It was noon. The children's playtime was over; the ducks in the pond were silent.
The shepherd boy lay asleep under the shadow of the banyan tree.
The crane stood grave and still in the swamp near the mango grove.
In the meanwhile the Sleep-stealer came and, snatching sleep from baby's eyes, flew away.
When mother came back she found baby travelling the room over on all fours.
Who stole sleep from our baby's eyes? I must know. I must find her and chain her up.
I must look into that dark cave, where, through boulders and scowling stones, trickles a tiny stream.
I must search in the drowsy shade of the bakula grove, where pigeons coo in their corner, and fairies'anklets tinkle in the stillness of starry nights.
In the evening I will peep into the whispering silence of the bamboo forest, where fire-flies squander their light, and will ask every creature I meet, “Can anybody tell me where the Sleep-stealer lives? ”
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know.
Shouldn't I give her a good lesson if I could only catch her!
I would raid her nest and see where she hoards all her stolen sleep.
I would plunder it all, and carry it home.
I would bind her two wings securely, set her on the bank of the river, and then let her play at fishing with a reed among the rushes and water-lilies.
When the marketing is over in the evening, and the village children sit in their mothers'laps, then the night birds will mockingly din her ears with:
“Whose sleep will you steal now? ”
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