Alas, how easily things go wrong!

A sigh too much,

Or a kiss too long,

And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,

And life is never the same again.

Alas, how hardly things go right!

‘Tis hard to watch in a summer night,

For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay,

Summer night is far away.

And yet, how easily things go right!

If the sigh and a kiss of a summer’s night come deep 

from the soul in the stronger ray 

that is born in the light of the winter’s day.

And things can never go badly wrong!

If the heart be true and the love be strong,

For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain,

Will be changed by the love into sunshine again.

 

唉，事情出錯多容易！

一個嘆氣太多，

或一個吻太長，

接著是薄霧和滴水的雨，

生活永遠不會再一樣了。

唉，事情要做對多難啊！

在夏天的夜晚很難觀看，

因為嘆息會來，吻會留下來，

夏夜很遠。

然而，事情進展順利！

如果一個夏夜的嘆息和一個吻從深處過來

來自於更強烈光芒中的靈魂

它在冬日的光芒下誕生。

事情永遠不會出錯！

如果內心真實，愛變得強大，

對於霧，如果它來了，還有滴水的雨，

愛會讓它們再一次變成陽光。