De gode, så vel som de onde ord, --- Snart er de sneen som falt i fjor. --- The good as well as the evil words, --- Soon they are the falling snow from last year. --- Die gute als auch böse Wort, --- Bald wird der Schnee, der im vergangenen Jahr fiel. --- Le bon mot aussi bien que mal, --- Bientôt la neige qui est tombée l'année dernière. --- La buena, así como la palabra mal, --- Pronto la nieve que cayó el año pasado.

If sometimes I say that flowers smile
And if I should say that rivers sing,
It's not because I think there are smiles in flowers
And songs in the rivers' flowing---
It's so I can help misguided people's 
Feel the truly real existence of flowers and rivers.

Since I write for them to read me, 
I sometimes stoop
To the stupidity of their senses---
It isn't right, but I excuse myself,
Because I've only taken on this odious role,
An interpreter of Nature,
Because there are people who don't grasp
   its language,
Which is no language at all.