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Laura Ingalls Wilder: "Ketika biola itu berhenti bernyanyi, Laura bers...

"Ketika biola itu berhenti bernyanyi, Laura berseru pelan, "Hari apa auld lang syne, Pa?" "Itu adalah zaman dahulu kala, Laura," kata Pa. "Pergi tidur sekarang." Tetapi Laura terbangun beberapa saat, mendengarkan biola Pa bermain lembut dan suara kesepian angin di Big Woods, ... Dia senang bahwa rumah yang nyaman, dan Pa dan Ma dan lampu api dan musik, sekarang. Mereka tidak bisa dilupakan, pikirnya, karena sekarang adalah sekarang. Tidak pernah bisa lama sekali."

--- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Versi Bahasa Inggris

When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.