To the Oak Tree致橡树 By Shu Ting If I love you 我如果爱你-- I will never be a clinging trumpet creeper 绝不像攀援的凌霄花 Using your high boughs to show off my height 借你的高枝炫耀自己 If I love you 我如果爱你-- I will never be a spoony bird 绝不学痴情的鸟儿 Repeating a monotonous~song for green shade 为绿荫重复单调的歌曲 Or be a spring 也不止像泉源 Bringing cool solace all year long 常年送来清凉的慰藉 Or be a steep~peak 也不止像险峰 Increasing your stature reflecting your eminence 增加你的高度,衬托你的威仪 Even the sunlight 甚至日光 Even the spring rain 甚至春雨 No, all these are not enough 不,这些都还不够 I must be a ceiba tree beside you 我必须是你近旁的一株木棉 Be the image of a tree standing together with you 作为树的形象和你站在一起 Our roots, entwined underground 根,紧握在地下 Our leaves, touching in the clouds 叶,相触在云里 With each gust of wind 每一阵风过 We greet each other 我们都互相致意 But nobody 但没有人 Can understand our words 听懂我们的言语 You'll have your copper branches and iron trunk 你有你的铜枝铁干 Like knives, like swords, like halberds, too 像刀、像剑,也像戟 I'll have my crimson flowers 我有我的红硕花朵 Like heavy sighs 像沉重的叹息 And valiant~torches 又像英勇的火炬 We'll share cold spells, storms and thunders 我们分担寒潮、风雷、霹雳 We'll share mists, hazes and rainbows Seemingly always apart 我们共享雾霭、流岚、虹霓 But also forever interdependent 仿佛永远分离 却又终身相依 Only this can be great love 这才是伟大的爱情 The loyalty is here 坚贞就在这里 Love -- 爱-- I love not only your strapping stature 不仅爱你伟岸的身躯 But also your firm stand 也爱你坚持的位置, the earth beneath you 足下的土地
To the oak If I am in love withyou Never will I be the flowerswhich climb up through your pull To show off withyour high limbIf I am in your loveNever will I be thelovesick birdsSinging the samesong all the time for the shade of the treeNot just like thespringheadGiving cool andrefreshing comfort year in year out Not just like theperilous peakTo highlight youheight and set off your impressive and dignified mannerEven the lightEven the rain in thespringNo , all these arenot enough I must be a bombax closeto you To stay with you as a tree With root held firmly undergroundAnd leaves touchedin the windEvery blast of windblows throughWe show respects toeach otherBut never willanyone Take in what we sayYou posses yourbranch of brass and trunk of ironLike knives andswordsHalbeds as well I have my red andlarge flowersLike a heavy sighLike brave torch aswell We share cold waves 、winds、thunders andthunderclapsWe share flogsflowing mist and rainbowAs if we live apartfor good and allBut depending oneach other foreverThis is what greataffectionHere is the faith Love ------------Not only fall for yourstalwart bodyBut also what you stick to and the land you are on