我为什么爱你？

                 Why I love thee?

  问问海风为什么流连，

     Ask why the seawind wanders,

潮汐为什么并肩着沙滩，

Why the shore is aflush with the tide,

月亮为什么在天上步履缓缓；

Why the moon through heaven meanders;

像那远航的帆，

Like seafaring ships that ride

乘着静水流深；

On a sullen, motionless deep;

     为什么海鸥在岸边扑着翅膀

      Why the seabirds are fluttering the strand

     当浪花们给自己唱起摇篮曲

       Where the waves sing themselves to sleep

     沙丘的波浪里就住着一片星光！

         And starshine lives in the curves of the sand!