One day you finally knew
    what you had to do, and began,
    though the voices around you
    kept shouting
    their bad advice--
    有一天，你終于知道，
    什么是你必須得做，并開始去做，
    雖然你周圍的聲音，
    一直喊出，
    其各種糟糕的建議——
    though the whole house
    began to tremble
    and you felt the old tug
    at your ankles.
    “Mend my life!”
    each voice cried.
    But you didn’t stop.
    You knew what you had to do,
    雖然整個房子，
    開始顫抖，
    你亦感到那條舊繩索，
    絆住了你的腳踝。
    “修補我的人生！”
    每個聲音都在哭喊。
    但你并沒停止。
    你知道什么是你必須得做的，
    though the wind pried
    with its stiff fingers
    at the very foundation
    though their melancholy
    was terrible.
    It was already late
    enough, and a wild night,
    and the road full of fallen
    branches and stones.
    雖然風用它僵硬的手指，
    直往根基，
    撬搗，
    雖然它們的憂郁，
    著實可怕。
    天色，
    已經很晚，這是個瘋狂的夜晚，
    路上滿是倒下的，
    斷枝和石頭。
    But little by little,
    as you left their voices behind,
    the stars began to burn
    through the sheets of clouds
    and there was a new voice
    which you slowly
    recognized as your own,
    that kept you company
    as you strode deeper and deeper
    into the world,
    determined to do
    the only thing you could do--
    determined to save
    the only life you could save.
    但漸漸地，
    當你將它們的聲音拋在身后，
    星星開始穿透云層，
    散發(fā)光輝，
    一個新的聲音出現了，
    你慢慢，
    意識到，那是你自己的聲音，
    它伴隨著你，
    伴你步步，
    深入世途，
    決心去做，
    你能做的事——
    決定去拯救，
    你能拯救的生命。