夏日之床
冬日我大清早起床，
借着昏黄的烛光穿衣。
夏日却完全相反，
我必须日间即上床。
我必须上床，且看
鸟儿还在树梢跳跃，
或听大人匆匆走过的脚步声，
走过我的身旁走向大街。
它对你难道不会太为难吗？
明亮蔚蓝的天空当前，
而你又那么喜欢玩乐，
却不得不在日间睡觉？
Book I
A Child's Garden of Verses
Bed in Summers
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
摘自小书房典藏图书馆 poems
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/youth/poems/AChildsGardenofVerses/chap1.html