And then I found a poem of mine that I had carefully written by hand in the sixth grade,
and at the bottom of the page, in India ink,
beautifully apart from the rest of the text,
were the words

The End.

And I realized children very often denote the end
because it is indeed a great achievement for them to have written anything,
and they are completely unaware of the number of stories and poems that have already been written;

they know some, of course,
but have not yet found out the extent to which they are not the only persons residing on the planet.
And so they sign their poems and stories like kings.
Which is a wonderful thing.

然后我发现了我六年级时精心手写的一首诗，
在页面底部，用印度墨水写的，
与文本的其他部分漂亮地分开，

一个 "终"字。

我意识到孩子们经常表示结束，
因为对他们来说，写出任何东西确实是一项伟大的成就，
他们完全不知道已经写了多少故事和诗歌；
当然，他们知道一些，

但还没有发现他们在多大程度上不是居住在这个星球上的唯一人员。
因此，他们就像国王一样在他们的诗和故事上签名。
这是件十分美妙的事情。