Ｔｒｅｅｓ树

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绿树以它的绿装扮着大地，使大地充满生机，棵棵绿树，苍萃欲滴，给人们创造了优美的环境。我们来读一下这首J. Kilmer的Trees《树》，体会一下诗人对树的感受：

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed

Against the earths sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with the rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

树

我想我从未见过一首

美如玉树的诗篇。

一棵张着饥饿嘴巴的树，

紧压在大地甘美而流畅的乳房上；

一棵整天望着神的树，

举起枝叶繁茂的手臂来祈祷；

一棵在夏日里可能

戴着一窝知更鸟在头发上的树；

雪花堆积在她的怀抱里；

雨水也和她亲切地生活在一起。

像我这样愚笨的人可以作诗，

但唯有神方能造树。