https://www.taiwancenter.com/sdtca/articles/3-14/1.html 英文传记From Far Formosa，第一章的 ”Early years of the author ” 的第一段有如 下的原文如下，可跟上面台语诗/歌词比较，台语诗的部分可说直接引用此文的粗斜体字 。 「FAR Formosa is dear to my heart. On that island the best of my years have been spent. There the interest of my life has been centered. I love to look up to its lofty peaks, down into its yawning chasms, and away out on its surging sea. I love its dark-skinned people—Chinese, Pepohoan, and savage--among whom I have gone these twenty-three years, preaching the gospel of Jesus. To serve them in the gospel I would gladly, a thousand times over, give up my life. Before what I now write has been read I will have set my face once more westward toward the far East, and by God's good hand will have reached again my beloved Formosan home beyond the Pacific Sea. There I hope to spend what remains of my life, and when my day of service is over. I should like to find a resting-place within sound of its surf and under the shade of its waving bamboo.」 1932年3月8日的台北放送局（JFAK）为纪念马偕牧师来淡水60周年，访问他儿子偕叡廉牧 师。这访问在Presbyterian Record曾详细刊载。此英文报导中最後附上如下的诗，偕叡 廉牧师说他父亲在临终前几年，曾写一诗表达他的心愿。此诗非全诗，可由第六行最後的 ------看出来。 For Formosa is dear to my heart. On that island the best of my years have been spent. There the interest of my life has been centered. I have to look up its lofty peaks, down into its yawning chasms, and away out on its surging sea…… And when my day of service is over I should like to find a resting place within sound of its surf, and under the shade of its waving bamboo. -- 【sik-sut蟋蟀；tshiok-tsit促织(文)；gim5-khiong5吟蛩(文): cricket】【too7-kau5 杜猴: Formosan giant cricket 台湾大蟋蟀(华语)】【too7-peh-a2杜伯仔: mole cricket 蝼蛄(华语)】【tsiong-su螽斯: katydid, bush cricket】【oo-liong5乌龙: black katydid 黑色的螽斯(华语)】 --

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