李晨老师读诗 | Youth -- 塞缪尔·厄尔曼名篇《青春》
塞缪尔·厄尔曼（Samuel Ullman 1840-1920）犹太人，生于德国。1851年，随家人迁往美国的密西西比。厄尔曼不仅是著名的教育家，社会活动家，还是一位才华横溢的大作家。1917年，77岁高龄的厄尔曼写出了简单明快，隽永深刻的散文诗《青春》。麦克阿瑟将军对这篇小美文推崇备至，将其镶进框架，挂在墙上，时常凝视，用以警醒、鞭策自己。后来，日本人在美国的军事基地发现了这篇美文，它随即便风靡日本。日本出版界一位资深人士曾说：在日本，几乎每一位工业家都曾被厄尔曼的《青春》所鼓舞，其中不乏松下幸之助这样的商业巨子。松下幸之助就曾把《青春》一文作为自己的座右铭。 《青春》全文不足250字，短小精悍，隽永明快，寓意深刻，扣人心弦，读来如听晨钟，如闻暮鼓，朝夕使人自警自策。
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《YOUTH》Samuel Ullman
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of
rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a
quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of
the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the
appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of
60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We
grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,
the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of
living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless
station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and
power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism
and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as
your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die
young at 80.
《青春》
文/塞缪尔·厄尔曼
青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想
象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子
则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心
灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不
衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的
信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。
一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实
已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉
年轻。
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