I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
我不会向你开口;独坐时,或在夜里独自醒来时,我会想起你。我会等待,毫不怀疑我们将再次相遇;我会留心,不再失去你。
— Walt Whitman · To a Stranger · Leaves of Grass —