老子道德经(英译本)Lao Tze 76. Flexibility

作者：《Lao Tze》李耳

• A newborn is soft and tender,
  A crone, hard and stiff.
  Plants and animals, in life, are supple and succulent;
  In death, withered and dry.
  So softness and tenderness are attributes of life,
  And hardness and stiffness, attributes of death.
  
  Just as a sapless tree will split and decay
  So an inflexible force will meet defeat;
  The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
  While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.