1. 你的孩子不是你的
他們是生命的子女,
是生命對自己的渴望
他們經你所生,卻不是從你所出,
雖然他們和你一起,卻不屬於你
《先知‧孩子1》
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Lifes
longing for itself
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong
not to you

2. 你可以給他們你的愛,
但不能給他們你的思想,
因為他們有自己的思想
《先知‧孩子2》
You may give them your love
but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts

3. 你的房裡可以住著他們的身體,
卻住不了他們的靈魂,
因為他們的靈魂住在明日之屋,
即使是在夢中你也無法拜訪
《先知‧孩子3》
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit,not even in your dreams

4. 你可以努力去像他們,
但不要想使他們像你,
因為生命不會倒退,也不會駐足昨日
《先知‧孩子4》
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you
For life goes not backward
nor tarries with yesterday

5. 你是弓,
子女是從你身上射出去的活生生的箭
弓箭手看到在無窮路徑上的記號,
用祂的氣力彎曲你這支弓,
希望祂的箭能射得又快又遠
《先知‧孩子5》
You are the bows from which your children as
living arrows are sent forth
The archer sees the mark upon the path
of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that
His arrows may go swift and far

6. 愉悅的屈服在神的手中吧;
因為正如祂愛那飛馳的箭,
同樣祂也愛那穩定的弓
《先知‧孩子6》
Let your bending in the Archers hand
be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable