Beauty

Beauty means this to one and that to the other.
And yet when anyone of us has seen that
which to him is beautiful he has known an emotion
which is in every case the same in kind.
A ship in sail
a blooming flower,
a town at night,
a lovely poem,
leaf shadows,
a child's grace,
the starry skies,
apple trees in spring,
the thought of beauty,
these are the drops of rain
that keep the human spirit from death by draught.
They are a stealing and a silent refres***nt
that we perhaps do not think about
but which goes on all the time.
Beauty is the smile on the earth's face,
open to all,
and needs but the eyes to see,
mood to understand.

美对每个人的意义都不同
而当有人看见了
这对他来说,是一种美丽的情感，
它在任何情况下相同的性质都不同。
一艘船在航行，
一朵盛开的花朵,
夜晚的小镇,
动人诗篇,
树影婆娑,
一个孩子的恩典,
漫天的繁星,
苹果树在春天,
想到美丽,
它们是雨滴
在滋润着人类的灵魂,使之免于风口。
它们悄然而来，
在我们不经意中荡涤尘寰。
美是大地的笑容,
对所有的人绽放,
只要我们用眼去捕捉,
用心去感受。