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grass of parnassus-第4部分
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The murmur of a doubtful wail
Of voices loved so long ago。
We scarce had care to die or live;
We had no honey cake to give;
No wine of sacrifice to shed;
There lies no new path over sea;
And now we know how faint they be;
The feasts and voices of the dead。
Ah; flowers and dance! ah; sun and snow!
Glad life; sad life we did forego
To dream of quietness and rest;
Ah; would the fleet sweet roses here
Poured light and perfume through the drear
Pale year; and wan land of the west。
Sad youth; that let the spring go by
Because the spring is swift to fly;
Sad youth; that feared to mourn or love;
Behold how sadder far is this;
To know that rest is nowise bliss;
And darkness is the end thereof。
VERSES
MARTIAL IN TOWN。
Last night; within the stifling train;
Lit by the foggy lamp o'erhead;
Sick of the sad Last News; I read
Verse of that joyous child of Spain;
Who dwelt when Rome was waxing cold;
Within the Roman din and smoke。
And like my heart to me they spoke;
These accents of his heart of old:…
〃Brother; had we but time to live;
And fleet the careless hours together;
With all that leisure has to give
Of perfect life and peaceful weather;
〃The Rich Man's halls; the anxious faces;
The weary Forum; courts; and cases
Should know us not; but quiet nooks;
But summer shade by field and well;
But county rides; and talk of books;
At home; with these; we fain would dwell!
〃Now neither lives; but day by day
Sees the suns wasting in the west;
And feels their flight; and doth delay
To lead the life he loveth best。〃
So from thy city prison broke;
Martial; thy wail for life misspent;
And so; through London's noise and smoke
My heart replies to the lament。
For dear as Tagus with his gold;
And swifter Salo; were to thee;
So dear to me the woods that fold
The streams that circle Fernielea!
APRIL ON TWEED。
As birds are fain to build their nest
The first soft sunny day;
So longing wakens in my breast
A month before the May;
When now the wind is from the West;
And Winter melts away。
The snow lies yet on Eildon Hill;
But soft the breezes blow。
If melting snows the waters fill;
We nothing heed the snow;
But we must up and take our will; …
A fishing will we go!
Below the branches brown and bare;
Beneath the primrose lea;
The trout lies waiting for his fare;
A hungry trout is he;
He's hooked; and springs and splashes there
Like salmon from the sea!
Oh; April tide's a pleasant tide;
However times may fall;
And sweet to welcome Spring; the Bride;
You hear the mavis call;
But all adown the water…side
The Spring's most fair of all。
TIRED OF TOWNS。
'When we spoke to her of the New Jerusalem; she said she would
rather go to a country place in Heaven。'
Letters from the Black Country。
I'm weary of towns; it seems a'most a pity
We didn't stop down i' the country and clem;
And you say that I'm bound for another city;
For the streets o' the New Jerusalem。
And the streets are never like Sheffield; here;
Nor the smoke don't cling like a smut to THEM;
But the water o' life flows cool and clear
Through the streets o' the New Jerusalem。
And the houses; you say; are of jasper cut;
And the gates are gaudy wi' gold and gem;
But there's times I could wish as the gates was shut …
The gates o' the New Jerusalem。
For I come from a country that's over…built
Wi' streets that stifle; and walls that hem;
And the gorse on a common's worth all the gilt
And the gold of your New Jerusalem。
And I hope that they'll bring me; in Paradise;
To green lanes leafy wi' bough and stem …
To a country place in the land o' the skies;
And not to the New Jerusalem。
SCYTHE SONG。
Mowers; weary and brown; and blithe;
What is the word methinks ye know;
Endless over…word that the Scythe
Sings to the blades of the grass below?
Scythes that swing in the grass and clover;
Something; still; they say as they pass;
What is the word that; over and over;
Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?
HUSH; AH HUSH; the Scythes are saying;
HUSH; AND HEED NOT; AND FALL ASLEEP;
HUSH; they say to the grasses swaying;
HUSH; they sing to the clover deep!
HUSH … 'tis the lullaby Time is singing …
HUSH; AND HEED NOT; FOR ALL THINGS PASS;
HUSH; AH HUSH! and the Scythes are swinging
Over the clover; over the grass!
PEN AND INK。
Ye wanderers that were my sires;
Who read men's fortunes in the hand;
Who voyaged with your smithy fires
From waste to waste across the land;
Why did you leave for garth and town
Your life by heath and river's brink;
Why lay your gipsy freedom down
And doom your child to Pen and Ink?
You wearied of the wild…wood meal
That crowned; or failed to crown; the day;
Too honest or too tame to steal
You broke into the beaten way;
Plied loom or awl like other men;
And learned to love the guineas' chink …
Oh; recreant sires; who doomed me then
To earn so few … with Pen and Ink!
Where it hath fallen the tree must lie。
'Tis over late for ME to roam;
Yet the caged bird who hears the cry
Of his wild fellows fleeting home;
May feel no sharper pang than mine;
Who seem to hear; whene'er I think;
Spate in the stream; and wind in pine;
Call me to quit dull Pen and Ink。
For then the spirit wandering;
That slept within the blood; awakes;
For then the summer and the spring
I fain would meet by streams and lakes;
But ah; my Birthright long is sold;
But custom chains me; link on link;
And I must get me; as of old;
Back to my tools; to Pen and Ink。
A DREAM。
Why will you haunt my sleep?
You know it may not be;
The grave is wide and deep;
That sunders you and me;
In bitter dreams we reap
The sorrow we have sown;
And I would I were asleep;
Forgotten and alone!
We knew and did not know;
We saw and did not see;
The nets that long ago
Fate wove for you and me;
The cruel nets that keep
The birds that sob and moan;
And I would we were asleep;
Forgotten and alone!
THE SINGING ROSE。
'La Rose qui chante et l'herbe qui egare。'
White Rose on the grey garden wall;
Where now no night…wind whispereth;
Call to the far…off flowers; and call
With murmured breath and musical
Till all the Roses hear; and all
Sing to my Love what the White Rose saith。
White Rose on the grey garden wall
That long ago we sung!
Again you come at Summer's call; …
Again beneath my windows all
With trellised flowers is hung;
With clusters of the roses white
Like fragrant stars in a green night。
Once more I hear the sister towers
Each unto each reply;
The bloom is on those limes of ours;
The weak wind shakes the bloom in showers;
Snow from a cloudless sky;
There is no change this happy day
Within the College Gardens grey!
St。 Mary's; Merton; Magdalen … still
Their sweet bells chime and swing;
The old years answer them; and thrill
A wintry heart against its will
With memories of the Spring …
That Spring we sought the gardens through
For flowers which ne'er in gardens grew!
For we; beside our nurse's knee;
In fairy tales had heard
Of that strange Rose which blossoms free
On boughs of an enchanted tree;
And sings like any bird!
And of the weed beside the way
That leadeth lovers' steps astray!
In vain we sought the Singing Rose
Whereof old legends tell;
Alas; we found it not mid those
Within the grey old College close;
That budded; flowered; and fell; …
We found that herb called 'Wandering'
And meet no more; no more in Spring!
Yes; unawares the unhappy grass
That leadeth steps astray;
We trod; and so it came to pass
That never more we twain; alas;
Shall walk the self…same way。
And each must deem; though neither knows;
That NEITHER found the Singing Rose!
A REVIEW IN RHYME。
A little of Horace; a little of Prior;
A sketch of a Milkmaid; a lay of the Squire …
These; these are 'on draught' 'At the Sign of the Lyre!'
A child in Blue Ribbons that sings to herself;
A talk of the Books on the Sheraton shelf;
A sword of the Stuarts; a wig of the Guelph;
A LAI; a PANTOUM; a BALLADE; a RONDEAU;
A pastel by Greuze; and a sketch by Moreau;
And the chimes of the rhymes that sing sweet as they go;
A fan; and a folio; a ringlet; a glove;
'Neath a dance by Laguerre on the ceiling above;
And a dream of the days when the bard was in love;
A scent of dead roses; a glance at a pun;
A toss of old powder; a glint of the sun;
They meet in the volume that Dobson has done!
If there's more that the heart of a man can desire;
He may search; in his Swinburne; for fury and fire;
If he's wise … he'll alight 'At the Sign of the Lyre!'
COLINETTE。
For a sketch by Mr。 G。 Leslie; R。A。
France your country; as we know;
Room enough for guessing yet;
What lips now or long ago;
Kissed and named you … Colinette。
In what fields from sea to sea;
By what stream your home was set;
Loire or Seine was glad of thee;
Marne or Rhone; O Colinette?
Did you stand with maidens ten;
Fairer maids were never seen;
When the young king and his men
Passed among the orchards green?
Nay; old ballads have a note
Mournful; we would fain forget;
No such sad old air should float
Round your young brows; Colinette。
Say; did Ronsard sing to you;
Shepherdess; to lull his pain;
When the court went wandering through
Rose pleasances of Touraine?
Ronsard and his famous Rose
Long are dust the breezes fret;
You; within the garden close;
You are blooming; Colinette。
Have I seen you proud and gay;
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