out of my deeper heart
Out of my deeper heart, a bird rose and flew skywards.
Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew.
Yet it left not my heart.
O my faith, my untamed knowledge, how shall I fly to your height and see with you man's larger self pencilled upon the sky?
How shall I turn this sea within me into mist, and move with you in space immeasurable?
How can a prisoner within the temple behold its golden domes?
How shall the heart of a fruit be stretched to envelop the fruit also?
O my faith, I am in chains behind these bars of silver and ebony, and I cannot fly with you.
Yet out of my heart you rise skyward, and it is my heart that holds you, and I shall be content.
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自我心的深处，有鸟飞起，飞向天空。鸟越飞越高，却又越来越大。
起先，它只像燕子一般大小，而后像云雀，像兀鹰，像春天的云团，最后，竟至遮蔽了星光闪耀的天空。
自我心的深处，有鸟飞向天空，鸟高飞而复巨硕，然而终没有飞出我的心扉。
呵，我的信仰，我难以驯服的真知！我如何才能飞到你的高度，与你同观印画在空中的人的"我"？
我如何才能将心底的大海化为烟云，随你一道在辽阔不可测的空中轻德？
那羁身于殿堂的囚徒，如何才能一睹殿堂金碧辉煌的穹窿？
果实的核心如何才能扩伸，以至包含了果实？
呵，我的信仰，我锁链加身，身处这以白银黑擅为栅栏的牢笼，竟不能与你齐飞。
然而，自我心的深处，你飞向天空，是我的心包孕了你，我可以因此满足了。
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