美是真实之物，我看见了--杰伊.豪普勒

要是那些长尾小鹦鹉会再靠近点
停留在我坐着的地方，而不是降落在
远处树林的树梢上就好了，今天早晨就会
更加非凡了。
人们能够看见燕八哥，我认为，边走边啄食的样子
    像牛津大学的教授
穿过石板小径和草坪，一忽儿燕子，一忽儿麻雀，
一忽儿乌鸦。但那些鸟儿都平淡无奇--，所以...
 有暇令人烦恼。
什么都不会，只有那些长尾鹦鹉会做，而他们不会做
我想要他们做的事情。这样，他们在这个世界上
就像其他任何东西一样
各有其美丽。
If only those parakeets would settle
A little nearer to where I’m sitting, instead of at the tops of far-off
     trees, this morning
Would be so much more remarkable.
One could watch the blackbirds, I suppose, peck their ways like
     Oxford dons across
The flagstone paths and lawns, or the swallows, or the sparrows,
Or the crows. But those birds are so plain—, so…painfully
     available.
No, only those parakeets will do and they will not do
What I want them to. In this, they are like everything else in the
     world.
Every beautiful thing.