When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It walked with arms hanging 它迈着双臂垂

Wanted the stream to be a river and the river a torrent 诚征流是一条河，河洪流

And this puddle, the sea 而这个水坑，海

When the child was a child, it didn't know 当孩子小的时候，它不知道

It was a child 这是一个孩子

Everything for it was filled with life and all life was one 对于这一切都充满了生命和全部生活1

Saw the horizon without trying to reach it 只见天边没有试图去实现它

Couldn't rush itself And think on command 不能急于本身想在命令

Was often terribly bored 往往是非常无聊

And couldn't wait 而就迫不及待

Passed up greeting the moments 向上传递问候的时刻

And prayed only with it's lips 而且，只有祈祷它的嘴唇

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It didn't have an opinion about a thing 它没有对一件事情的看法

Had no habits 没有习惯

Often sat crossed-legged, took off running 经常坐在交叉腿，脱掉运行

Had a cow lick in it's hair 有一头牛在舔它的毛

And didn't put on a face when photographed 并拍照时，没有把一个面

   

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It was the time of the following questions 这是下列问题的时候

Why am I me and why not you 为什么我我，为什么你不

Why am I here and why not there 我为什么在这里，为什么不存在

Why did time begin and where does space end 为什么时间开始，并在那里做的空间到底

Isn't what I see and hear and smell 是不是我所看到和听到的和闻

Just the appearance of the world in front of the world 世界上仅有在世界的前面外观

Isn't life under the sun just a dream 是不是生活中的阳光只是一个梦想下

Does evil actually exist in people 作恶实际上人们存在

Who really are evil 谁真的是邪恶的

Why can't it be that I who am 为什么不能是我我是谁

Wasn't before I was 是不是以前我是

And that sometime I, the I, I am 而且有时我时，我，我是

No longer will be the I, I am 将不再是我，我是

   

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It gagged on spinach, on peas, on rice pudding 它塞住菠菜，豌豆上，在八宝粥

And on steamed cauliflower 和蒸花椰菜

And now eats all of it and not just because it has to 现在吃的是它并不仅仅是因为它有

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It woke up once in a strange bed 在一个陌生的床上醒来的时候，一旦

And now time and time again 而现在一次次地

Many people seem beautiful to it 许多人似乎漂亮吧

And now not so many and now only if it's lucky 现在没有那么多，现在只有当它的幸运

It had a precise picture of paradise 它有天堂的精确画面

And now can only vaguely conceive of it at best 现在只能隐约充其量想象它

It couldn't imagine nothingness 这无法想象的虚无

And today shudders in the face of it 今天在颤抖面对它

Go for the ball 去的球

Which today rolls between it's legs 今天它的两腿之间滚

With it's I'm here it came 有了它的，我这里来了

Into the house which now is empty 到现在是空的房子

   

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It played with enthusiasm 它使用了与热情

And now only with such former concentration 现在只能用这样的前浓度

Where it's work is concerned 它的工作是关注

When the game, task, activity, subject happens to be it's work 在游戏中，任务，活动，主题恰好是它的工作

   

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It was enough to live on apples and bread. And it's still that way 这是够住就苹果和面包。而且它仍然是这样

When the child was a child berries fell 当孩子还是个孩子的浆果下跌

Only like berries into it's hand. And still do 只有像浆果到它的手。而且还在做

The fresh walnuts made it's tongue raw. And still do 新鲜的核桃使它的舌头原料。而且还在做

Atop each mountain it craved 上面每座山就渴望

Yet a higher mountain. And in each city it craved 然而，更高的山。而在每个城市也渴望

Yet a bigger city. And still does 然而，一个更大的城市。仍然不

Reach for the cherries in the treetop 达到在树梢的樱桃

As elated as it still is today 由于心花怒放，因为它至今仍是

Was shy in front of strangers. And still is 很害羞在陌生人面前。现在仍然是

It waited for the first snow. And still waits that way 它等待着第一场雪。并仍在等待这样

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It waited restlessly each day for the return of the loved one 它不安地等待着每一天所爱的人的回报

And still waits that way 并仍在等待这样

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

It hurled a stick like a lance into a tree 这就像投掷长矛棍子变成一棵树

And it's still quivering there today 而且它至今仍在那里颤抖

   

The child, the child was a child 孩子，孩子还是个孩子

Was a child, was a child, was a child, was a child 还是个孩子，还是个孩子，还是个孩子，还是个孩子

Child, child, child 孩子，孩子，孩子

When the child, when the child, when the child 当孩子，孩子的时候，当孩子

When the child, when the child 当孩子，当孩子

The child, child, child, child, child 孩子，孩子，孩子，孩子，孩子

   

[added words by Van Morrison] [由Van莫里森说的话]

And on and on and on and on, etc. And onward 和和和和，等从不间断

With a sense of wonder 有一种奇怪的感觉

Upon the highest hill. Upon the highest hill 在最高山。在最高山

When the child was a child 当孩子还是个孩子

Are you there 你在那里吗

Shassas, shassas Shassas ， shassas

Up on a highest hill 截至上最高的山

When the child was a child, was a child, was a child 当孩子还是个孩子，还是个孩子，还是个孩子

Was a child, was a child, was a child, etc. 还是个孩子，还是个孩子，还是个孩子，等等。

   

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