（梭罗/作， 白元宝/译）

时光不会磨损她；她是时光战车的引领者；
命运在她的球体下安置。
——拉雷

满月带着不变的光线
升上东天，
不是为了这些短暂的夜晚，
她的光芒从不间断。

她不会衰退，而我的命运，
无法受庇于她的光线，
我无常的轨迹很快就会隐遁，
而她的光芒丝毫不减。

即便她此时月影昏昏，
光线暗淡，
然而她永葆那美妙的球体，
她是夜的主人。

原诗：

The Moon

(Henry David Thoreau)

Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;
Mortality below her orb is placed.
--Raleigh

The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray
Mounts up the eastern sky,
Not doomed to these short nights for aye,
But shining steadily.

She does not wane, but my fortune,
Which her rays do not bless,
My wayward path declineth soon,
But she shines not the less.

And if she faintly glimmers here,
And paled is her light,
Yet alway in her proper sphere
She's mistress of the night.