第二十七章[第1頁/共3頁]

到現在，已經有六年疇昔了……

And now six years have already gone by...

現在，我獲得了稍許安撫，就是說……還冇有完整安靜下來。我曉得他已經返回了他的星球上。因為那天拂曉，我冇有找到他的身軀。實在他的身軀並不那麼重……今後，我就喜幸虧夜間聆聽星星的笑聲，彷彿是能聽到五億個鈴鐺的響聲……有件事情很首要。我給小王子畫的羊嘴套上，忘了加上皮帶！他不成能把它套在羊嘴上。偶然，我會想：“他的星球會產生甚麼事呢？大抵小綿羊把花吃掉了吧……”

Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognise it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.

這真是非常奇異。對你們這些也喜好小王子的人來講，就像我一樣，不管在宇宙的甚麼處所，在某處我們不曉得的處所，有一隻我們永久也見不到的綿羊，吃掉了，或者冇有吃掉一朵玫瑰，統統都會截然分歧。

But there is one extraordinary thing... when I drew the muzzle for the little prince, I forgot to add the leather strap to it. He will never have been able to fasten it on his sheep. So now I keep wondering: what is happening on his planet Perhaps the sheep has eaten the flower...

But at another time I say to myself: "At some moment or other one is absent-minded, and that is enough! On some one evening he forgot the glass globe, or the sheep got out, without making any noise, in the night..." And then the little bells are changed to tears...