闻一多·《火柴》英译

这些都是君王底

樱桃艳嘴的小歌童：

有的唱出一颗灿烂的明星，

唱不出的，都拆成两片枯骨。

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Wen Yiduo

All of them here belong to the king,

These little singers with their pretty cherry-lips:

Some sing forth as glittering stars.

Those who cannot sing

Were each broken into two pieces of dry bone.