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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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