五月，是适合谈论青春的季节，<div>愿你欢愉生命</div><div>如同春未夏初的季节</div><div>带着热烈的期待，</div><div>充满生命的渴望</div><div>迎接生命炙烈的夏日……</div><div>期待累累的积实……</div> 《青春》<br>塞缪尔·厄尔曼<br><br>青春不是年华，而是心境；<div>青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，</div><div>而是深沉的意志、</div><div>恢宏的想像、</div><div>炽热的感情；</div><div>青春是生命的深泉涌流。<br><br>青春气贯长虹，</div><div>勇锐盖过怯弱，</div><div>进取压倒苟安。</div><div>如此锐气，</div><div>二十后罕有之，</div><div>六旬男子则更多见。</div><div><br></div><div>年岁有加，并非垂老；</div><div>理想丢弃，方堕暮年。<br><br>岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；</div><div>热忱抛却，颓唐必致灵魂。</div><div>忧烦、惶恐、丧失自信，</div><div>定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。<br><br>无论年届花甲，</div><div>抑或二八芳龄，</div><div>心中皆有</div><div>生命之欢欣，</div><div>奇迹之诱动，</div><div>有孩童般天真</div><div>久盛不衰……。</div><div><br></div><div>人的心灵应如浩淼瀚海，</div><div>只有不断接纳</div><div>今日之美好、希望、</div><div>欢乐、勇气</div><div>和力量的百川，</div><div>才能青春永驻、风华长存。<br><br>一旦心海枯竭，</div><div>锐气便被冰雪覆盖，</div><div>玩世不恭、</div><div>自暴自弃油然而生，</div><div>即使年方二十，</div><div>实已垂垂老矣；</div><div><br></div><div>然则</div><div>只要虚怀若谷，</div><div>让喜悦、达观、</div><div>仁爱之心充盈其间，</div><div>你就有望在八十高龄</div><div>告别尘寰之际</div><div>……仍觉年轻。<br><br></div> <br>《YOUTH》<br><br>Samuel Ullman<br><br><br>Youth is not a time of life; <div>it is a state of mind; </div><div>it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, </div><div>red lips and supple knees; </div><div>it is a matter of the will, </div><div>a quality of the imagination, </div><div>a vigor of the emotions; </div><div>it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.<br><br></div><div>Youth means a temperamental predominance </div><div>of courage over timidity of the appetite, </div><div>for adventure over the love of ease. </div><div><br></div><div>This often exists in a man of sixty </div><div>more than a boy of twenty.</div><div>Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. </div><div>We grow old by deserting our ideals.<br><br></div><div>Years may wrinkle the skin, </div><div>but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. </div><div><br></div><div>Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart</div><div>and turns the spirit back to dust.</div><div><br>Whether sixty or sixteen, </div><div>there is in every human being's heart </div><div>the lure of wonder, t</div><div>he unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, </div><div>and the joy of the game of living.</div><div>In the center of your heart </div><div>and my heart there is a wireless station; </div><div><br></div><div>so long as it receives messages of beauty, </div><div>hope, cheer, courage and power</div><div>from men and from the infinite, </div><div>so long are you young.<br><br></div><div>When the aerials are down, </div><div>and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism </div><div>and the ice of pessimism, </div><div>then you are grown old, </div><div>even at twenty, </div><div><br></div><div>but as long as your aerials are up, </div><div>to catch the waves of optimism,</div><div>there is hope </div><div>you may die young at eighty……</div><div><br></div>