Victor Hugo
What matter it though life uncertain be to all?何必去管它,人生總是無定,
What though its goal be never reached? 壯志難成又有什么關系,
What though it fall and flee― 又何必計較你蹉跌并敗奔——
Have we not each a soul? 我們豈不是各自有靈魂?
Be like the bird that on a bough too frail 要像那鳥兒在柔弱的枝梢,
To bear him gaily swings 經不起它歡樂地跳躍;
He carols though the slender branches fail― 雖然那細枝折斷了它仍歌唱——
He knows he has wings! 因為它知道自己有翅膀!