Literature and Academic Forum (LAF5)
***** Monday, June 7, 2004 #First Edition
Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI)
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Entering the Realms of gold
---First items of the poems
By Raymond Yin
Dear Dr. and Mrs(.) Lei:
Thank you (of your idea) for posting my translated peams(poems). What you have done (and are going to do on the poems) for me is higthly appreciated.
Regards
Raymond W. Yin, M.D,
(3:37 p. m., 060604---On Poetry.)
A Psalm of Life
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.*1
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The Golden Sunset
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The golden sea its mirror spreads
Beneath the golden skies,
And but a narrow strip between
Of land and shadow lies.
The cloud-like rocks, the rock-like clouds
Dissolved in glory float,
And midway of the radiant flood,
Hangs silently the boat.
The sea is but another sky,
The sky a sea as well,
And which is earth and which is heaven,
The eye can scarcely tell.*2
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Impressed by the beauty of the flier for the cover of my book entitled "Entering the Realms of gold," which was designed by Dr. Tony Lei on the WBTI website in the middle of May this year, I used to point out that,"The creative design for my poetry by Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) has won applause from the public for its selfless contribution to the encouragement and promotion of the Chinese literature all around the World. I'm deeply impressed by its effort and wisdom of humane creed to community service and spiritual belief." The webside is brought to you by the Las Vegas Review-Journal through its Communitylink on: http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti.
The following flier of translations in Chinese for the above two poems are in my book entitled "Entering the Realms of gold," which was published by Englighten Noah Publishing*3 on May, 2004:
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References
*1.Yin, W. Remond. (2004) "Entering the Realms of gold," Santa Clara, Califonia: Englighten Noah Publishing. Upon the request of the Author of this book, the related of the poems both in English and in Chinese of the book were agreed to be used on this feature article.
*2. Ibid.
*3. WBTI. 'An art of literature,' "Section of 'Leading Chinese Literature World' on WBTI website," (May 21, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti.
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