[ti:青春物语]
[ar:niko]
[00:00.568]The Youth ,Goes Way !
[00:02.18]Man's youth is a wonderful thing:
[00:06.316]it is so full of anguish and of magic
[00:09.166]and he never comes to know it as it is,
[00:12.968]until it has gone from him forever.
[00:16.648]It is the thing he cannot bear to lose,
[00:19.748]it is the thing
[00:20.748]whose passing he watches with infinite sorrow and regret,
[00:25.949]it is the thing whose loss with a sad and secret joy,
[00:36.472]the thing he would never willingly relive again,
[00:40.23]could it be restored to him by any magic.
[00:42.24]Why is this?
[00:44.924]The reason is that the strange and bitter miracle of life
[00:49.24]is nowhere else so evident as in our youth.
[00:53.174]And what is the essence of that strange and bitter miracle of life
[00:56.524]which we feel so poignant ,so unutterable,
[00:59.674]with such a bitter pain and joy,when we are young?
[01:06.924]It is this:that being rich,we are so poor;that being mighty,
[01:12.724]we can yet have nothing;that seeing,breathig,smelling,
[01:15.476]tasting all around us the impossible wealth and glory of this earth,
[01:22.376]feeling with an intolerable certitude
[01:26.695]that the whole structure of the enchanted life –
[01:30.45]the most fortunate,wealthy,good,and happy life
[01:34.483]that any man has ever known –is ours –is ours at once,
[01:39.934]immediately and forever,the moment that we choose to take a step,
[01:44.735]or stretch a hand,or say a word-
[01:49.85]we yet know that we can really keep,hold,take,
[01:51.785]and possess forever-nothing.All passes;
[01:56.486]nothing lasts:the moment that we put our hand upon it
[02:02.637],it melts away like smoke,is gone forever,
[02:05.487]and the snake is eating at our heart again;
[02:09.437]we see then what we are and what our lives must come to.
[02:15.137]A young man is so strong,so mad,so certain,and so lost.
[02:21.939]He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
[02:25.239]He hurls the great shoulder of his strength forever
[02:30.39]against phantasmalbarriers,
[02:30.389]he is a wave whose power explodes in lost mid –
[02:33.839]oceans under timeless skies,
[02:40.339]here-aches out to grip a fume of painted smoke,
[02:44.589]he wants all,feels the thirst and power foreverything,
[02:49.90]and finally gets nothing.In the end,
[02:53.140]he is destroyed by his own strength,
[02:55.693]devoured by his own hunger,impoverished by his own wealth.
[03:01.593]Thoughtless of money or the accumulation of material possessions,
[03:05.393]he is none the less defeated in the end by his own greed a greed
[03:13.594]that makes the avarice of King Midas seem paltry by comparison.
[03:16.94]And that is the reason why,
[03:20.594]when youth is gone,every man will look back upon that period of his life
[03:24.794]with infinite sorrow and regret.
[03:29.544]It is the bitter sorrow and regret of a man
[03:32.645]who knows that once he had a great talent and wasted it ,
[03:37.546]of a man who knows that once he had a great treasure and got nothing from it ,
[03:43.797]of a man who knows that he had strength enough for everything and never used it.
[03:47.47]-----xiao_cat