道格拉斯·馬羅奇（1877-1938）美國著名詩人。
基本介紹
- 中文名：道格拉斯·馬羅奇
- 外文名：Douglas Malloch
- 出生日期：1877
- 逝世日期：1938
代表作,作品簡介,
代表作
Be the Best of Whatever You Are(做最好的自己)、It's Fine Today (今天很好)、Echoes（回音）、The Road of Masonry、
Father's Lodge、The Little Lodge Of Long Ago、Building、The Masonry Of Spring、Make Me Mellow等等。
作品簡介
道格拉斯·馬羅奇，在中國最出名的就是那一首膾炙人口的《做最好的自己》了，
做最好的自己
如果你不能成為山頂的一棵松
就做一叢小樹生長在山谷中
但須是溪邊最好的一小叢
如果你不能成為一棵大樹，就做灌木一叢
如果你不能成為一叢灌木，就做一片綠草
讓公路也有幾分歡娛
如果你不能成為一隻麝香鹿，就做一條鱸魚
但須做湖裡最好的一條魚
我們不能都做船長，我們得做海員
世上的事情，多得做不完
工作有大的，也有小的
我們該做的工作，就在你的手邊
如果你不能做一條公路，就做一條小徑
如果你不能做太陽，就做一顆星星
不能憑大小來斷定你的輸贏
不論你做什麼都要做最好一名
英文版：
Be The Best of Whatever You Are
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass —
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail —
Be the best of whatever you are!
這首詩的意義，在於“我們不要模仿別人。我們應找到自己，保持本色。”而且在自己的努力下，力爭做到最好！道格拉斯·馬羅區這首詩，你總找到自己的一些適合自己的人生格言。這就是它流傳這么久，依舊散發出的魅力。它催人奮進，也叫人不要氣餒，因為人總有存在的價值，和未來的追求。
Echoes
by Douglas Malloch
Fine men have walked this way before,
Whatever Lodge your Lodge may be;
Whoever stands before the door,
The sacred arch of Masonry,
Stands where the wise, the great, the good,
In their own time and place have stood.
You are not Brother just with these,
Your friends and neighbors; you are kin
With Masons down the centuries;
This room that now you enter in
Has felt the tread of many feet,
For here all Masonry you meet.
You walk the path the great have trod,
The great in heart, the great in mind,
Who looked through Masonry to God,
And looked through God to all mankind
Learned more than word or sign or grip,
Learned Man's and God's relationship.
To him who sees, who understands,
How mighty Masonry appears!
A Brotherhood of many lands,
A fellowship of many years,
A Brotherhood so great, so vast,
Of all the Craft of all the past.
And so I say a sacred trust
Is yours to share, is yours to keep;
I hear the voice of men of dust,
I hear the step of men asleep;
And down the endless future, too,
Your own shall echo after you
