如果我们是尘埃，我们正是如此，而尘埃上升，它必将上升，

If we, as we are, are dust, and dust, as it will, rises,

那么，我们也将上升，而后再次聚集

Then we will rise, and recongregate

在风里，在云里，成为它们的后嗣，

In the wind, in the cloud, and be their issue,

成为坠落的世界中坠落的事物，滑过

Things in a fall in a world of fall, and slip

那尖刺的树枝和常青树劈啪作响的关节，

Through the spiked branches and snapped joints of the evergreens,

白蚁，白蚁以及它们小小的肋骨。

White ants, white ants and the little ribs.