我每天把纸船放在急流的溪中。
我在纸船上用大黑字写上我的名字和我住的村名。
我希望住在异地的人会得到纸船,知道我是谁。
我把园中长的秀丽花栽在我的小船上,希望这些黎明开的花能在夜里平平安安地带到岸上。
我投我的纸船到水里,仰望天空,看见小朵的云正张着满鼓着风的白帆。
我不知道天上有我的什么游伴把这些船放下来同我的船比赛!
夜来了,我的脸埋在手臂里,梦见我的纸船在子夜的星光下缓缓地浮泛前去。
睡仙坐在船里,带着满载梦的篮子。
Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream.
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��In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live.
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��I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am.
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��I load my little boats with shiuli flowers from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night.
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��I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds setting their white bulging sails.
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��I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats!
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��When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.
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��The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams.