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The midsummer night of my childhood
The stars and the moon were as close as pickable fruits
But my grandmother couldn't tell me the color of my hometown in her wrinkled stories
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The color of my hometown is hidden in the stars and the moon
When the lonely Chang'e was no longer lonely
People were surprised to see the color of my hometown in her tearful gaze
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Adulthood. It was only through her tearful gaze
that people were shocked to see the color of their hometown
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On the midsummer night of adulthood
the stars and the moon had shaken off the color of their hometown
so it was the color of the sea
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So the sea, the sea, the sea
When people have exhausted all the gorgeous words
to praise you, you will be able to find the color of the sea.
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The earth around you
Is drenched in all the blue light
The earth that floats for you
Has the sound of the slow tide that you cover
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You're a mirror falling from the sky
With angels looking on it in all its glory
So that butterflies fly off from a plate of jasper
And the butterflies fly off from a plate of jasper
You're the mirror falling from the sky
With angels looking on you.
You are three sisters equal to the sky and the earth
The cradle of human thought
An immense spiritual pasture
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How many expeditionary sails have been set by mankind's wandering footsteps
From ancient times to the present day
Just like the brilliant sunlight
Three
And how many times have you sailed on your way to the world?
Riding your waves with ease
Chasing and jumping on your waves
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The wings of man's dreams
Flying from one shore to the other
How many poetic banishments have there been
Just like the bright moonlight
Gently caressing the ripples of your waves
Swaying on top of your waves
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The romantic thoughts of mankind
fly from the sky to the earth
How many beautiful sentiments
Like the colorful clouds
that bravely fall into the heart of your waves
and change their colors in your folds
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Four
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You have separated yourself from the rest of the world, and you are the only one who has ever been in the world. //
You are a stage set by God
With tricks he commands the devil to perform
And props he arranges for the angels to use
Humans ? Brave? Humility
is the theme of his direction
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For thou, with horrible tyranny
hast called forth the armor of a gladiator
and with a light too soft to penetrate
hast so wisely and so compassionately
taken the name of mankind's bravery
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For thou art the Sphinx of mankind
and the Sphinx of the human race
. The Sphinx of mankind
And answered all the arrogance of mankind with the pride of a thousand years
So sublime, so tenderly
Took the name of mankind's humility
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The hope gained through despair
The life gained through nine deaths
All through you, the sea
And all through the sea, the sea. You, the sea
Your fierce tyranny
Your black coldness
has gained divine revelation
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And the breadth gained through narrowness
And the civilization gained through savagery
have all been gained through you, the sea
. --The sea
Thy boundless expanse
Thy blue tenderness
has gained human enlightenment
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Six
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Thou art a square of heavenly energy
Always surging with stirring passion.
Your generous power
shakes the weak
inspires the brave
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How many of life's lost wanderings
have awakened to your boundlessness
and with your infinite expanse
you've lured people to distant shores
with your abyssal depths.
With the depth of your abyss
You lead men to the bottom of the mystery
In the midst of the boundlessness
You make them realize the smallness of their own selves
In the midst of their own selves
they realize the greatness of the Universe
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The world is full of rocks and thorns
And you lift it up in the softest of ways
And you make them feel that they have been born by your presence.
Teach men to think of thee
To think of thee is sublime
Therefore, when I put my sorrows and joys into thy waves
In the midst of thy frightening vastness
Life seems to be lived not on the shore
But in the last moorings of the heart
Where the word "I" is not written. "
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Seven
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The sea, the sea
Why do men worship your color?
Because in that chaotic .
In the vastness of the sky
In the colorful river of stars
She used you, the sea
The soft blue of your turquoise water
The soft blue of your turquoise water
It is only then that it was solemnly marked out in the cosmos
The uniqueness of mankind's sharp, spiritual eyes
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"The sea, the sea
Why does mankind worship your color?
"In the beginning, the heavens were empty and chaotic
and darkness was upon the face of the fathoms" (Genesis)
For in the darkness there was a blue eye
and from thence the heavens were no longer empty
and from thence the earth was no longer chaotic
for thou didst purify the earth by harboring its filth
and purifying it. The earth
And you have cleansed it of all its filth
You are the stage of life and the graveyard of death
The sky and the earth are clear because of you
Life and living are beautiful because of you
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You are the beginning of the world and the end of the world in the future. The sea, the sea
See the spring come and go
Hear the tide rise and fall
Human beings have experienced the rise and fall of a hundred generations
The world has changed drastically
How much cruelty and bloodshed have you witnessed, and how much passion have you witnessed
How many vicissitudes of the world have you gone through, and how many great stories of the earth have you recorded
?
We look up to the heavens and ask you questions
And in the realm of our hearts we wonder
Who says that the answer to our questions is
Your eternal silence?
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We touch your heart on the shore at sunset
We hear your heart in the sound of the broken sky
And you have opened up the language of wisdom to us with your hidden thoughts
You rolled down the thunder of anger from the sky
You tore up the crowning clouds from the corners of the earth
You You lift from the sea the sun and the moon
Yours is always old, always new
Yours is the answer, Yours is the answer
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Nine
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The sea, the sea
The sea, the sea
The sky lowers its lips to kiss the white waves of the sea
The earth stretches out its arms to embrace the vastness of the sea
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The sea, the sea
The sea, the sea
The sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea. //
But let me cover you with poetic songs
Your spiritual breadth is beyond my reach
For the heartfelt sensation you give
Between confusion and clarity
Between uncertainty and determination
I choose to fit in, which I can't refuse
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But let me fly over you with poetic songs
But let me fly over you with poetic songs
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But let me fly over you with poetic songs. But let me fly over your
Your spiritual heights that are beyond my reach
For the sails of thought that you have given me
Between sinking and rising
Between retreating and advancing
I insist on arriving at the other side of the shore of my ideals
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TEN
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In the mid-summer night of my childhood A Midsummer Night
The stars and moon are as close as the fruit you can pick
But Grandma can't tell the color of my hometown in her wrinkled stories
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The color of my hometown is hidden in the stars and the moon
Midsummer Night in my adulthood
The stars and the moon have shaken off the color of my hometown
And so that's the color of the sea.