As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

如翠鸟着火，蜻蜓划焰火；

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

如翻过了圆边进到圆井

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

石边沿；诉如每根系绳要系紧，如每个悬铃

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

铃壁为自名“铃”声寻向铃舌；

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

每件可朽之物自作且仅能自作：

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

每个停留的人让自己留于门庭；

Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

自我——自己可行；我自己它且拼且评，

Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

叫出“我所做是我：我来即是我。”

I say móre: the just man justices;

我且多说：正人行正直；

Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;

持恩慈：故其诸行恩且慈；

Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —

行于神眼中如神眼中本是——

Chríst. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,

基督，因基督在十千地方现世，

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

可爱在四肢，可爱在他人所视

To the Father through the features of men's faces.

由众人脸孔模样将天父昭示。