As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

如翠鸟着火，蜻蜓划焰火；

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

如跌撞上圆井缘，石经鸣；

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

似每根拨弦之述，每只悬铃

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

之荡弓找舌头把名字投播；

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

每名朽物一件相同的事做：

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

分给出每位居室内的居灵；

Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

自自我——自自己；“我自己”且拼且评，

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

啭叫“我所做是我：我来而为我”。

I say móre: the just man justices;

我且讲更多：公正的人公正；

Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;

保持慈恩：保持他之所行慈恩；

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

在神眼中表现他在神眼中的诚——

Chríst. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,

基督——因基督在十千地方成真，

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

对父，通过人的面容特征

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

可爱在四肢，可爱在双眼，非他之身。