Hold Fast Your dreams
Louise Driscoll
Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And, sheltered so,
May thrive and grow
Where doubt and fear are not.
O keep a place apart,
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go!
Think still of lovely things that are not true.
Let wish and magic work at will in you.
Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe!
Forget the calm that lies
In disillusioned eyes.
Though we all know that we must die,
Yet you and I
May walk like gods and be
Even now at home in immortality.
We see so many ugly things –
Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings
We know, alas! We know
How quickly fade
The color in the west,
The bloom upon the flower,
The bloom upon the breast
And youth’s blind hour.
Yet keep within your heart
A place apart Where little dreams may go,
May thrive and grow.
Hold fast – hold fast your dreams!
緊緊抓住夢想
緊緊抓住夢想!
悄悄將它
揣入心房
那夢想萌芽、掩蔽的地方，
在那裏繁茂、生長
懷疑與恐懼被遠遠阻擋。
哦，心中劈出一小塊地方，
任小小夢想自由自在生長!
悄悄想望無以成真的甜蜜。
願望與神奇在心中伸展。
學會熟視無睹，對於悲傷。
有時我們需要喬裝!
忘卻清醒者眼中的.鎮定，
雖然深知我們都將西去，
你和我依然能
如神一般前行
正獲得現世中的永生。
見過太多醜惡，
欺騙、錯失與荒唐
哦，我們深諳，
太陽很快西下，
花兒轉瞬凋零，
歲月難駐，
青春易逝。
然心中仍凜然留有一塊地方，
小小夢想在那萌芽，
在那繁茂、在那生長。
抓住——緊緊抓住自己的夢想!
