每朵綻放的玫瑰，
全是不朽春日裡
那朵玫瑰捎來的問候。
Each rose that comes brings me greetings
From the Rose of an eternal spring.
玫瑰才剛對太陽說：
「我會永遠記住你。」
花瓣便片片落入塵土。
While the rose said to the sun,
“I shall ever remember thee,”
her petals fell to the dust.
當玫瑰盛放，愛情是美酒，
當玫瑰花瓣凋敝、巨大飢餓來臨，
愛情搖身成了麵包。
In the bounteous time of roses love is wine, –
it is food in the famished hour
when their petals are shed.
玫瑰渾然不覺自己有多重要，
竟羞慚地為身上長刺道歉。
The rose is a great deal more
than a blushing apology for the thorn.
本文節錄自：《流螢集Fireflies 【中英雙語版】》一書，泰戈爾（Rabindranath Tagore）著，尤淑瑜繪，杜力璇譯，好讀出版。
