| DAY by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream. |
我每天把紙船一個個放在急流的溪中。 |
| In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live. |
我用大黑字寫我的名字和我住的村名在紙船上。 |
| I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am. |
我希望住在異地的人會得到這紙船，知道我是誰。 |
| I load my little boats with shiuli flowers from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night. |
我把園中長的秀利花載在我的小船上，希望這些黎明開的花能在夜里被平平安安地帶到岸上。 |
| I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds setting their white bulging sails. |
我投我的紙船到水里，仰望天空，看見小朵的云正張著滿鼓著風的白帆。 |
| I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats! |
我不知道天上有我的什么游伴把這些船放下來同我的船比賽！ |
| When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars. |
夜來了，我的臉埋在手臂里，夢見我的紙船在子夜的星光下緩緩地浮泛前去。 |
| The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams. |
睡仙坐在船里，帶著滿載著夢的籃子。 |
