Morning

　　by Clinton Lee Scott

　　From the East comes the sun,

　　Bringing a new and unspoiled day.

　　It has already circled the Earth and

　　Looked upon distant lands and

　　Faraway peoples.

　　It has passed over mountain ranges and

　　The waters of the seven seas .

　　It has shone upon laborers in the fields,

　　Into the windows of homes,

　　And shops,and factories.

　　It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,

　　And also the hovels of the poor.

　　It has been witness to the both good and evil,

　　The works of honest men and women and

　　The conspiracy of knaves.

　　It has seen marching armies,bomb-blasted villages

　　And“the destruction that wasteth at noonday”

　　Now,unsullied from its tireless journey,

　　It comes to us,

　　Messenger of the morning .

　　Harbinger of a new day.

　　太陽從東方升起，

　　帶來全新而自然的一天。

　　它已越過山河大地，

　　眺望遠方的田園，

　　還有那里的人們。

　　他穿越了重重山脈

　　和茫茫七海之水。

　　他照耀著田間勞動者的頭頂，

　　映照在千家萬戶的窗戶上，

　　點亮了商店和工廠。

　　它注視著閃亮高樓林立的城市，

　　和窮人們棲身的陋居。

　　它見證了人世的善與惡，

　　目睹了正直好人的辛勞以及

　　流氓無賴的密謀。

　　它見到行進中的軍隊和毀于炮彈的村莊

　　還有“在正午把人毀滅的毒病”。

　　而今，它在不倦的旅程中依然一塵不染，

　　它來到了我們的面前，

　　它是清晨的信使，

　　帶來了嶄新的一天。