CHAPTER LII

 What music is that in whose measure the world is rocked?

 

We laugh when it beats upon the crest¹ of life, we shrink in terror when it returns into the dark.

 

But the play is the same that comes and goes with the rhythm of the endless music.

 

You hide your treasure in the palm of your hand, and we cry that we are robbed.

 

But open and shut your palm as you will, the gain and the loss are the same.

 

At the game you play with your own self you lose and win at once.

1 crest   

n.顶点；饰章；羽冠；vt.达到顶点；vi.形成浪尖

参考例句：

• The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
• He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。