I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time; Arise and bid me strike a match And strike another till time catch; Should the conflagration climb, Run till all the sages know.

天真者和美丽者,除了时光没有敌人；,起来，让我划一根火柴,再划一根，直到时光点燃；,假如大火升腾，就奔跑，直到所有圣贤都知道。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选