I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while,

And gone my way and for gotten it.

But that was the pearl of great price,

The one field that had treasure in it.

I realise now that I must give all that I have to possess it.

 

Life is not hurrying on to a receding future,

Nor hankering after an imagined past.

It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the little bush,

To a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once,

But is the eternity that awaits you,

 

我已看到太陽突然照亮了一個小領域，

而且我走我的路，並得到它。

但那是價格昂貴的明珠，

那個寶藏埋在其中的領域。

我現在意識到，我必須給予我必須擁有的一切。

 

人生並沒有急於走向後退的未來，

在想像的過去之後也不渴望。

就像摩西遇見小灌木的奇蹟，這是個轉折點，

看起來曾像你的青春一樣短暫的光輝，

但是永恆是等待著你的，