我会采更多的雏菊

美国诗人纳-斯待尔在87岁时写的诗——

我会采更多的雏菊

如果我能够从头活过，

我会试着犯更多的错。

我会放松一点，我会灵活一点。

我会比这一趟过得傻。

很少有什么事情能让我当真。

我会疯狂一些，我会少讲点卫生。

我会冒更多的险。我会更经常的旅行。

我会爬更多的山，游更多的河，看更多的日落。

我会多吃冰激凌，少吃豆子。

我会惹更多的麻烦，可是不在想象中担忧。

你看，我小心翼翼地稳健地理智地活着。

一个又一个小时，一天又一天。

噢，我有过难忘的时刻。

如果我能够重来一次，我会要更多这样的时刻。

事实上，我不需要别的什么，

仅仅是时刻，一个接着一个。

我曾经不论到哪里都不忘记带上：

温度计，热水壶，雨衣和降落伞。

如果我能够重来一次，

我会到处走走，什么都试试，并且轻装上阵。

如果我能够重头活过，

我会延长打赤脚的时光。

从尽早的春天到尽晚的秋天。

我会更经常的逃学。

我不会考那么高的分数，除非是一不小心。

我会多骑些旋转木马，

我会采更多的雏菊。

附原文：I Would Pick More Daisies

When the late Nadine Stair of Louisville, Kentucky, was 85 years old, she was asked what she would do if she had her life to live over again.

"I'd make more mistakes next time," she said. "I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than  I have been on this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones."

"You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, and a raincoat. If I had to do it over again, I would travel lighter than I have.

"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds and I would pick more daisies."