Come my friends, 來吧,我的朋友,探索新世界永不嫌晚。 This not too late to seek a newer world for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset. 在夕陽裡揚帆而過,我心已決 And though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; 雖然我們不復往日力拔山兮氣蓋世 that which we are, we are; 但是我們豪氣干雲依舊 One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, 雖然歲月與命運消蝕了我們的野心 but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 我們的意志還在繼續奮鬥,搜尋和探索,絕不輕言退縮
還記得電影「春風化雨(Dead Poets Society)」裡一群可愛的高中生摸黑在山洞裡,伴著微弱的燭光朗誦Alfred Lord Tennyson的詩「Ulysses」,還有那位勇於顛覆傳統,帶著大家走進文學、詩詞歌賦殿堂一窺奧秘的Mr. Keating嗎?