作品原文

闻一多 《火柴》

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。

英文译文

Match Sticks
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.