To Friends

 LAST night, when I was wearied to my soul,

I was slipping out to dreamland very fast.

When I tho’t about you, and the things you did,

The help you gave, for which I did not ask.

Your unselfishness and kind deeds true,

Kept coming up before me like a scroll¹.

I could not count the many things you did,

For me, when I was sick, in body and in soul.

My undeserving self grew very, very tired.

With all the counting of them, and I slept.

But, ’twas just to dream again of all these things,

And in my restless sleep, I wept, and wept, and wept.

 

1 scroll   

n.卷轴，纸卷；(石刻上的)漩涡

参考例句：

• As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时，黄河的景象展现在眼前。
• He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴，以表彰其所做出的成就。