Not on the vulgar mass
并不是芸芸众生
Called "work",must Sentence pass,
所谓之“事业”，都必须被批判
Things done,that took the eye and had the price.
你尽心之事，付出均有其价值
O'er which,from level stand,
甚至超越世俗的评价
The low world laid its hand,
造物自有其准则
Found straight way to its mind,could value in trice:
在直通心灵之路上，瞬息间做出判断
But all,the world's coarse thumb
但造物之手那粗糙的拇指
And finger failed to plumb,
和指尖把探究的部分
So passed in making up the main account.
都穿梭在创作之中
All instincts immature,
天真愚昧
All purposes unsure,
暧昧懦弱
That weighed not as his work,yet swelled the man's amount:
并非造物的本意，却给人类增加了无数种可能
Thoughts hardly to be packed
与行动相比
Into a narrow act,
情感发展，思绪万千
Fancies that broke through thoughts and escaped:
幻想也逃逸出言语之外
All I could never be,
所有我力所不及的
All，men ignored in me,
所有我被人忽视的
This I was worth to God,whose wheel the pitcher shaped．
那才是我对上帝的价值，这是上帝赋予我的一个天分。
这段精炼的牢骚，让我们能够能惊赞热烈的失败，能欣赏一般人所嗤笑的呆气和空想，能景仰不计成败的艰苦卓绝的努力。