A Reflection
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. They are fortunate beings. They do not need to apprehend the significance of things. They do not grow weary nor miss step, nor do they fall out of rank and sink by the wayside to be left contemplating the moving procession.
Ah! that moving procession that has left me by the road-side! Its fantastic colors are more brilliant and beautiful than the sun on the undulating waters. What matter if souls and bodies are failing beneath the feet of the ever-pressing multitude! It moves with the majestic rhythm of the spheres. Its discordant clashes sweep upward in one harmonious tone that blends with the music of other worlds--to complete God's orchestra.
It is greater than the stars--that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. Oh! I could weep at being left by the wayside; left with the grass and the clouds and a few dumb animals. True, I feel at home in the society of these symbols of life's immutability. In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside.

反思
有些人天生就有强烈的同情心，这种力量富有极强的生命力。它不仅仅使他们能够跟时代并进，同时也使他们有资格提供自己特有的良好动力到这世界疯狂的步伐中。他们是幸运的一些人。不需要去忧虑一些事物的意义，不需要带着疲倦的滋味成长，也不用担心错过某些机会，更不需要害怕在他们的等级中掉队，或者被别人遗弃到路边，沉思如何赶上前进中的队伍。
啊！那个前进中的队伍抛弃了我，把我留在了路边。它那神奇变幻的色彩，比起太阳光下波光潋滟，更加的闪亮和美丽。有什么比起在以往众人走过的路上身心的失败更加让人难过的？地球在雄壮的节奏中转动。它的不和谐与一个和谐的音调相冲突，这个音调，是协调其他世界的音乐----来完成属于上帝管弦乐。
这比星星还要伟大----这属于人类力量的前进中的队伍，比起滚动的地球和地球上生长的万物还要伟大！噢！被遗留在路边的我哭泣着，被留在野草丛生，乌云漫天和一群不会说话的动物当中。真的，我感觉到在国内的社会中，这些生命中不可改变的标志。在队伍中，我感到无数挤压过来的脚，混乱的，无情的一双双手和令人窒息的空气。我不能听到队伍前进中的节奏了。
安慰！已经麻木的心啊。让我们在路边，继续等下去吧！