The God Whispers of Han Quing-jao(韩清饶)

From Orson Scott Card's award winning series "Ender's Game" comes the fictional characater "Han Qing-jao" (韩清饶).

Qing-jao was raised to see everything in the world in terms of her faith in the gods and is determined to serve them perfectly.

Qing-jao is quoted at the beginning of each chapter in the final book in the series, Children of the Mind, from where this poem is taken.

让我讲您我知道的最美好的故事。 一个人被给了一条狗, 他非常爱。 狗到处去与他, 但人不能教它做任何东西有用。 狗不会拿来或点, 它不会赛跑或不会保护或不会站哨。 反而狗坐了在他附近和看待他, 总以同样难解的表示。 "不是狗, 这是狼," 人的妻子说。 "他们独自对我是忠实的," 人说, 并且他的妻子与他再从未谈论了它。 人采取他的狗与他入他的私有飞机和的一天当他们飞行在高的冬天山, 引擎失败了并且飞机被撕毁了对细片在树之中。人放置灵菌, 他腹部被撕毁的开放由被剪的金属, 蒸汽刀片上升从他的器官在冷空气, 但所有他能认为是他忠实的狗。 他活吗? 他是疼的吗? 想象他的安心当狗来了填塞和看待他以那同样平稳的注视。 在狗引导人的敞开的腹部的一个小时以后, 那么开始拔出肚腑和脾脏和肝脏和咬他们, 一直学习人的面孔。 "感谢上帝,'人说。'至少我们的当中一个不会挨饿。"

Let me tell you the most beautiful story I know. A man was given a dog, which he loved very much. The dog went with him everywhere, but the man could not teach it to do anything useful. The dog would not fetch or point, it would not race or protect or stand watch. Instead the dog sat near him and regarded him, always with the same inscrutable expression. 'That's not a dog, it's a wolf,' said the man's wife. 'He alone is faithful to me,' said the man, and his wife never discussed it with him again. One day the man took his dog with him into his private airplane and as they flew over high winter mountains, the engines failed and the airplane was torn to shreds among the trees. The man lay bleeding, his belly torn open by blades of sheared metal, steam rising from his organs in the cold air, but all he could think of was his faithful dog. Was he alive? Was he hurt? Imagine his relief when the dog came padding up and regarded him with that same steady gaze. After an hour the dog nosed the man's gaping abdomen, then began pulling out intestines and spleen and liver and gnawing them, all the while studying the man's face. 'Thank God,' said the man. 'At least one of us will not starve.

"I think there's something in that for all us, don't you?"
-- Mike Moor (Frontline).