中途岛后，我们的人生旅程
    我发现自己在一个黑暗的森林，
    对于直接的途径已经遗失。
    我啊！多么艰难的事情是说
    这是什么森林野蛮，粗糙，和严厉的，
    哪想到再次在非常恐惧。
    因此，它是苦，死是多一点;
    但是，良好的治疗，其中有我发现，
    发言的其他事情我我在那里见到。
    我不能很好地重复怎么有我进来了，
    因此，充分的睡眠是目前我
    在我已经放弃了真正出路。
    但是，当我到达山的脚下，
    在这一点在山谷终止，
    其中有与惊恐刺穿我的心，
    我向上一看，我看到它的肩膀，
    既得已经与该行星的光线
    其中每个人的权利leadeth道路。
    当时有点平静的恐惧
    在我的心脏经受了整个湖泊
    那天晚上，我已经过去了这么可怜。
    甚至他，谁，与痛苦的呼吸，
    第四发出后海岸，
    轮流水危险和目光;
    所以，做了我的灵魂，这仍然是逃离开始，
    打开自己回重新看哪通行证
    但从来没有哪一个活生生的人离开。
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    Midway upon the journey of our life
    I found myself within a forest dark,
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
    Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
    What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
    Which in the very thought renews the fear.
    So bitter is it, death is little more;
    But of the good to treat, which there I found,
    Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
    I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
    So full was I of slumber at the moment
    In which I had abandoned the true way.
    But after I had reached a mountain's foot,
    At that point where the valley terminated,
    Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
    Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
    Vested already with that planet's rays
    Which leadeth others right by every road.
    Then was the fear a little quieted
    That in my heart's lake had endured throughout
    The night, which I had passed so piteously.
    And even as he, who, with distressful breath,
    Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,
    Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
    So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
    Turn itself back to re-behold the pass
    Which never yet a living person left.