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a dome of many-coloured glass-第6部分
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Which can conceive a hero! No deceit;
No knowledge taught by unrelenting years;
Can quench this fierce; untamable desire。
We know that what we long for once achieved
Will cease to satisfy。 Be still our fears;
If what we worship fail us; still the fire
Burns on; and it is much to have believed。
In Darkness
Must all of worth be travailled for; and those
Life's brightest stars rise from a troubled sea?
Must years go by in sad uncertainty
Leaving us doubting whose the conquering blows;
Are we or Fate the victors? Time which shows
All inner meanings will reveal; but we
Shall never know the upshot。 Ours to be
Wasted with longing; shattered in the throes;
The agonies of splendid dreams; which day
Dims from our vision; but each night brings back;
We strive to hold their grandeur; and essay
To be the thing we dream。 Sudden we lack
The flash of insight; life grows drear and gray;
And hour follows hour; nerveless; slack。
Before Dawn
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate;
By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws
Are as decrees immutable; O pause
Your even forward march! Not yet too late
Teach me the needed lesson; when to wait
Inactive as a ship when no wind draws
To stretch the loosened cordage。 One implores
Thy clemency; whose wilfulness innate
Has gone uncurbed and roughshod while the years
Have lengthened into decades; now distressed
He knows no rule by which to move or stay;
And teased with restlessness and desperate fears
He dares not watch in silence thy wise way
Bringing about results none could have guessed。
The Poet
What instinct forces man to journey on;
Urged by a longing blind but dominant!
Nothing he sees can hold him; nothing daunt
His never failing eagerness。 The sun
Setting in splendour every night has won
His vassalage; those towers flamboyant
Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt
His daylight wanderings。 Forever done
With simple joys and quiet happiness
He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
Though faint with weariness he must possess
Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;
He spurns life's human friendships to profess
Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy。
At Night
The wind is singing through the trees to…night;
A deep…voiced song of rushing cadences
And crashing intervals。 No summer breeze
Is this; though hot July is at its height;
Gone is her gentler music; with delight
She listens to this booming like the seas;
These elemental; loud necessities
Which call to her to answer their swift might。
Above the tossing trees shines down a star;
Quietly bright; this wild; tumultuous joy
Quickens nor dims its splendour。 And my mind;
O Star! is filled with your white light; from far;
So suffer me this one night to enjoy
The freedom of the onward sweeping wind。
The Fruit Garden Path
The path runs straight between the flowering rows;
A moonlit path; hemmed in by beds of bloom;
Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room
With tall; red dahlias and the briar rose。
'T is reckless prodigality which throws
Into the night these wafts of rich perfume
Which sweep across the garden like a plume。
Over the trees a single bright star glows。
Dear garden of my childhood; here my years
Have run away like little grains of sand;
The moments of my life; its hopes and fears
Have all found utterance here; where now I stand;
My eyes ache with the weight of unshed tears;
You are my home; do you not understand?
Mirage
How is it that; being gone; you fill my days;
And all the long nights are made glad by thee?
No loneliness is this; nor misery;
But great content that these should be the ways
Whereby the Fancy; dreaming as she strays;
Makes bright and present what she would would be。
And who shall say if the reality
Is not with dreams so pregnant。 For delays
And hindrances may bar the wished…for end;
A thousand misconceptions may prevent
Our souls from coming near enough to blend;
Let me but think we have the same intent;
That each one needs to call the other; 〃friend!〃
It may be vain illusion。 I'm content。
To a Friend
I ask but one thing of you; only one;
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on;
Forever vanished; like a vision gone
Out into the night。 Alas; how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed; but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half…forgotten sound。
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven…born castles shattered to the ground;
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs。
O stay your hand; and leave my heart its songs!
A Fixed Idea
What torture lurks within a single thought
When grown too constant; and however kind;
However welcome still; the weary mind
Aches with its presence。 Dull remembrance taught
Remembers on unceasingly; unsought
The old delight is with us but to find
That all recurring joy is pain refined;
Become a habit; and we struggle; caught。
You lie upon my heart as on a nest;
Folded in peace; for you can never know
How crushed I am with having you at rest
Heavy upon my life。 I love you so
You bind my freedom from its rightful quest。
In mercy lift your drooping wings and go。
Dreams
I do not care to talk to you although
Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies;
And all my being's silent harmonies
Wake trembling into music。 When you go
It is as if some sudden; dreadful blow
Had severed all the strings with savage ease。
No; do not talk; but let us rather seize
This intimate gift of silence which we know。
Others may guess your thoughts from what you say;
As storms are guessed from clouds where darkness broods。
To me the very essence of the day
Reveals its inner purpose and its moods;
As poplars feel the rain and then straightway
Reverse their leaves and shimmer through the woods。
Frankincense and Myrrh
My heart is tuned to sorrow; and the strings
Vibrate most readily to minor chords;
Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words
Which voice the passion and the ache of things:
Illusions beating with their baffled wings
Against the walls of circumstance; and hoards
Of torn desires; broken joys; records
Of all a bruised life's maimed imaginings。
Now you are come! You tremble like a star
Poised where; behind earth's rim; the sun has set。
Your voice has sung across my heart; but numb
And mute; I have no tones to answer。 Far
Within I kneel before you; speechless yet;
And life ablaze with beauty; I am dumb。
From One Who Stays
How empty seems the town now you are gone!
A wilderness of sad streets; where gaunt walls
Hide nothing to desire; sunshine falls
Eery; distorted; as it long had shone
On white; dead faces tombed in halls of stone。
The whir of motors; stricken through with calls
Of playing boys; floats up at intervals;
But all these noises blur to one long moan。
What quest is worth pursuing? And how strange
That other men still go accustomed ways!
I hate their interest in the things they do。
A spectre…horde repeating without change
An old routine。 Alone I know the days
Are still…born; and the world stopped; lacking you。
Crepuscule du Matin
All night I wrestled with a memory
Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought。
The crumbled wreck of years behind has wrought
Its disillusion; now I only cry
For peace; for power to forget the lie
Which hope too long has whispered。 So I sought
The sleep which would not come; and night was fraught
With old emotions weeping silently。
I heard your voice again; and knew the things
Which you had promised proved an empty vaunt。
I felt your clinging hands while night's broad wings
Cherished our love in darkness。 From the lawn
A sudden; quivering birdnote; like a taunt。
My arms held nothing but the empty dawn。
Aftermath
I learnt to write to you in happier days;
And every letter was a piece I chipped
From off my heart; a fragment newly clipped
From the mosaic of life; its blues and grays;
Its throbbing reds; I gave to earn your praise。
To make a pavement for your feet I stripped
My soul for you to walk upon; and slipped
Beneath your steps to soften all your ways。
But now my letters are like blossoms pale
We strew upon a grave with hopeless tears。
I ask no recompense; I shall not fail
Although you do not heed; the long; sad years
Still pass; and still I scatter flowers frail;
And whisper words of love which no one hears。
The End
Throughout the echoing chambers of my brain
I hear your words in mournful cadence toll
Like some slow passing…bell which warns the soul
Of sundering darkness。 Unrelenting; fain
To batter down resistance; fall again
Stroke after stroke; insistent diastole;
The bitter blows of truth; until the whole
Is hammered into fact made strangely plain。
Where shall I look for comfort? Not to you。
Our worlds are drawn apart; our spirit's suns
Divided; and the light of mine burnt dim。
Now in the haunted twilight I must do
Your will。 I grasp the cup which over…runs;
And with my trembling lips I touch the rim。
The Starling
〃‘I can't get out'; said the starling。〃
Sterne's ‘Sentimental Journey'。
Forever the impenetrable wall
Of self confines my poor rebellious soul;
I never see the towering white clouds roll
Befor
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