雙語散文:工作是能看見的愛
【英文原文】
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
【中文譯文】
工作是能看見的愛。
倘若你不是歡樂地卻厭惡地工作，那還不如撇下工作，坐在大殿的門邊，去乞求那些歡樂地工作的人的賙濟。
倘若你無精打采地烤着麪包，你烤成的麪包是苦的，只能救半個人的飢餓。
你若是怨重地壓榨着葡萄酒，你的怨望，在酒裏滴下了毒液。
倘若你能象天使一般地唱，卻不愛唱，那你就把人們能聽到白天和黑夜的聲音的耳朵都塞住了。
