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!
紧紧抓住梦想
紧紧抓住梦想!
悄悄将它
揣入心房
那梦想萌芽、掩蔽的地方，
在那里繁茂、生长
怀疑与恐惧被远远阻挡。
哦，心中劈出一小块地方，
任小小梦想自由自在生长!
悄悄想望无以成真的甜蜜。
愿望与神奇在心中伸展。
学会熟视无睹，对于悲伤。
有时我们需要乔装!
忘却清醒者眼中的.镇定，
虽然深知我们都将西去，
你和我依然能
如神一般前行
正获得现世中的永生。
见过太多丑恶，
欺骗、错失与荒唐
哦，我们深谙，
太阳很快西下，
花儿转瞬凋零，
岁月难驻，
青春易逝。
然心中仍凛然留有一块地方，
小小梦想在那萌芽，
在那繁茂、在那生长。
抓住——紧紧抓住自己的梦想!