我有个小小的影子，老跟着我进进出出，

我可没看出来，他有什么用处。

他从头到脚都像我；

每次我跳上床，他都先我一步。

他长大的方法超好玩—

不像一般小孩那么慢；

有时候他像个皮球，突然窜高，

有时候又小得压根找不着。

小朋友该怎么玩，他一点不懂，

可捉弄我的法子，他样样精通。

他紧挨着我，看着就像个胆小鬼；

我要是像他黏我那样黏着阿妈，都会脸红！

那天早上，早到太阳还没起呢，

我就起床，找到了每朵金凤花上闪亮的露珠；

可我那懒惰的小影子，跟只瞌睡虫似的，

还赖在我身后的床上，呼呼大睡呢。

（此系彩色斑马原创翻译，未经授权禁止转载）

My Shadow 

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; 

And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest things about him is the way he likes to grow-

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.

He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;

 I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!  

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;

But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,

Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.