一狼一本走江湖

When You Are Old 

When you are old and gray and full of sleep 
And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look 
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
 
How many loved your moments of glad grace, 
And loved your beauty with love false or true; 
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, 
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
 
And bending down beside the glowing bars, 
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled 
And paced upon the mountains overhead, 
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

But often the Past does not disappoint us; often it assists us in our quest to become our highest selves. For in the Past there have been many men of genius; and, inasmuch as the man of genius has come nearer to being continually conscious of his relation to the Over-Soul, it follows that the genius is actually more ourselves than we are.So we often have to fall back upon more gifted souls to interpret for us what we mean but cannot say. Any supreme triumph of expression, therefore, should arouse in us not humility, still less discouragement, but renewed consciousness that “one nature wrote and the same read.”

当时是这么翻译的：但通常情况下，历史不会让我们失望；它总是帮助我们达到自己的最高境界。历史上涌现过很多天才人物，他们都能够愈加清晰地意识到自我与“超灵”的联系，可以说，这些人可以让我们认识到“真我”。所以，我们经常会回过头来，向这些有天赋的灵魂寻求答案，借助他们的话道出我们无法言传的思想。因此，任何至高至善的表达，都不该在我们心中激起自卑，更不该唤起气馁，而应唤醒一种意识——“一个超灵写就，相同的灵魂解读”。