Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard  white,

Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;

And make us happy in the happy bees,

The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird

That suddenly above the bees is heard,

The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,

And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,

The which it is reserved for God above

To sanctify to what far ends He will,

But which it only needs that we fulfil.

罗伯特·弗罗斯特（Robert Frost，1874年3月26日——1963年1月29日）是20世纪最受欢迎的美国诗人之一。他曾当过新英格兰的鞋匠、教师和农场主，曾赢得4次普利策奖和许多其他的奖励及荣誉，被称之为“美国文学中的桂冠诗人”。