The Home 020
家 庭 030
On the Seashore04
海 边 05
The Source 08
来 源 09
Babys Way 10
孩童之道 11
The Unheeded Pageant 14
不被注意的花饰 15
Sleep-Stealer 18
偷睡眠者 19
The Beginning 24
开 始 25
Babys World 28
孩子的世界 29When and Why 30
时候与原因 31
Defamation 34
责 备 35
The Judge 36
审判官 37
Playthings 38
玩 具 39
The Astronomer 40
天文家 41
Clouds and Waves 42
云与波 43
The Champa Flower 46
金色花 47
Fairyland 50
仙人世界 51
The Land of the Exile 54
流放的地方 55
The Rainy Day 60
雨 天 61
Paper Boats 64
纸 船 65
The Sailor 66
水 手 67
The Further Bank 70
对 岸 71
The Flower-School 74
花的学校 75
The Merchant 78
商 人 79
Sympathy 82
同 情 83
Vocation 84
职 业 85
Superior 88
长 者 89
The Little Big Man 92
小大人 93
The Twelve Oclock 96
十二点钟 97
Authorship 98
著作家 99
The Wicked Postman 104
恶邮差 105
The Hero 110
英 雄 111
The End 118
告 别 119
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The Home
I paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.
The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness,and the widowed land,whose harvest had been reaped,lay silent.
Suddenly a boys shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen,leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.
His village home lay there at the end of the waste land,beyond the sugar-cane field,hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm,the cocoa-nut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.
I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight,and saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms countless homes furnished with cradles and beds,mothers hearts and evening lamps,and young lives glad with a gladness that knows nothing of its value for the world.
家 庭
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless world the children meet with shouts and dances.
They build their houses with sand,and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of world.
They know not how to swim,they know not how to cast nets.
Pearl fishers dive for pearls,merchants sail in their ships,while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures,they know not how to cast nets.
The sea surges up with laughter,and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children,even like a mother while rocking her babys cradle.
The sea plays with children,and pale gleams the smile of the sea -beach.
On the seashore of endless world children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky,ships are wrecked in the trackless water,death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless world is the great meeting of children.