佚名/Anonymous
You, little child, with your shining eyes and dimpled cheeks, you can lead us along the pathway to the more abundant life.
We blundering grownups need in our lives the virtues that you have in yours:
The joy and enthusiasm of looking forward to each new day with glorious expectations of wonderful things to come.
The vision that sees the world as a splendid place with good fairies, brave knights, and glistening castles reaching toward the sky.
The radiant curiosity that finds adventure in simple things: the mystery of billowy clouds, the miracle of snowflakes, the magic of growing flowers.
The tolerance that forgets differences as quickly as your childish quarrels are spent, that holds no grudges, that hates never, that loves people for what they are.
The genuineness of being oneself; to be done with sham, pretense, and empty show; to be simple, natural and sincere.
The courage that rises from defeat and tries again, as you with laughing face rebuild the house of blocks that topples to the floor.
孩子！你的眼睛閃著光澤，微笑時，你的雙頰露出小小的酒窩。一路上，你引導我們走向更豐富多彩的生活。
我們這些生活浮躁的成年人，需要你們身上的這些美德：
你們歡樂而熱忱地期待新一天的到來，欣喜地盼望美好事情的發生。
你們看到的世界，就像一個神奇的地方：有善良的仙女，勇敢的騎士，還有金光閃閃的城堡直衝雲霄。
你們強烈的好奇心能在小事中發現許多奧秘：洶湧的雲海神秘莫測；飄飛的雪花奇妙無比，含苞的花朵魅力無窮。
你們胸懷寬廣，孩子氣地爭吵以後，很快就忘記分歧，不會懷恨在心，你們喜歡人們真實的樣子。
你們表現自己的本性，沒有矯情的偽裝和空洞的做作；你們純樸、自然、誠懇。
你們有勇氣從失敗中站起，從頭再來，正如你會麵帶歡笑，把倒在地上的積木重新搭建成樓房那樣。