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second april-第2部分
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After the rain has ceased; and still
Will there be robins in the stubble;
Brown sheep upon the warm green hill。
Spring will not ail nor autumn falter;
Nothing will know that you are gone;
Saving alone some sullen plough…land
None but yourself sets foot upon;
Saving the may…weed and the pig…weed
Nothing will know that you are dead;
These; and perhaps a useless wagon
Standing beside some tumbled shed。
Oh; there will pass with your great passing
Little of beauty not your own;
Only the light from common water;
Only the grace from simple stone!
THE BEAN…STALK
Ho; Giant! This is I!
I have built me a bean…stalk into your sky!
La;but it's lovely; up so high!
This is how I came;I put
Here my knee; there my foot;
Up and up; from shoot to shoot
And the blessed bean…stalk thinning
Like the mischief all the time;
Till it took me rocking; spinning;
In a dizzy; sunny circle;
Making angles with the root;
Far and out above the cackle
Of the city I was born in;
Till the little dirty city
In the light so sheer and sunny
Shone as dazzling bright and pretty
As the money that you find
In a dream of finding money
What a wind! What a morning!
Till the tiny; shiny city;
When I shot a glance below;
Shaken with a giddy laughter;
Sick and blissfully afraid;
Was a dew…drop on a blade;
And a pair of moments after
Was the whirling guess I made;
And the wind was like a whip
Cracking past my icy ears;
And my hair stood out behind;
And my eyes were full of tears;
Wide…open and cold;
More tears than they could hold;
The wind was blowing so;
And my teeth were in a row;
Dry and grinning;
And I felt my foot slip;
And I scratched the wind and whined;
And I clutched the stalk and jabbered;
With my eyes shut blind;
What a wind! What a wind!
Your broad sky; Giant;
Is the shelf of a cupboard;
I make bean…stalks; I'm
A builder; like yourself;
But bean…stalks is my trade;
I couldn't make a shelf;
Don't know how they're made;
Now; a bean…stalk is more pliant
La; what a climb!
WEEDS
White with daisies and red with sorrel
And empty; empty under the sky!
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
Here is a place for me to lie。
Daisies spring from damned seeds;
And this red fire that here I see
Is a worthless crop of crimson weeds;
Cursed by farmers thriftily。
But here; unhated for an hour;
The sorrel runs in ragged flame;
The daisy stands; a bastard flower;
Like flowers that bear an honest name。
And here a while; where no wind brings
The baying of a pack athirst;
May sleep the sleep of blessed things;
The blood too bright; the brow accurst。
PASSER MORTUUS EST
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness;presently
Every bed is narrow。
Unremembered as old rain
Dries the sheer libation;
And the little petulant hand
Is an annotation。
After all; my erstwhile dear;
My no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love;
Now that love is perished?
PASTORAL
If it were only still!
With far away the shrill
Crying of a cock;
Or the shaken bell
From a cow's throat
Moving through the bushes;
Or the soft shock
Of wizened apples falling
From an old tree
In a forgotten orchard
Upon the hilly rock!
Oh; grey hill;
Where the grazing herd
Licks the purple blossom;
Crops the spiky weed!
Oh; stony pasture;
Where the tall mullein
Stands up so sturdy
On its little seed!
ASSAULT
I
I had forgotten how the frogs must sound
After a year of silence; else I think
I should not so have ventured forth alone
At dusk upon this unfrequented road。
II
I am waylaid by Beauty。 Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?
Oh; savage Beauty; suffer me to pass;
That am a timid woman; on her way
From one house to another!
TRAVEL
The railroad track is miles away;
And the day is loud with voices speaking;
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking。
All night there isn't a train goes by;
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming
But I see its cinders red on the sky;
And hear its engine steaming。
My heart is warm with the friends I make;
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take;
No matter where it's going。
LOW…TIDE
These wet rocks where the tide has been;
Barnacled white and weeded brown
And slimed beneath to a beautiful green;
These wet rocks where the tide went down
Will show again when the tide is high
Faint and perilous; far from shore;
No place to dream; but a place to die;
The bottom of the sea once more。
There was a child that wandered through
A giant's empty house all day;
House full of wonderful things and new;
But no fit place for a child to play。
SONG OF A SECOND APRIL
April this year; not otherwise
Than April of a year ago;
Is full of whispers; full of sighs;
Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again; and butterflies。
There rings a hammering all day;
And shingles lie about the doors;
In orchards near and far away
The grey wood…pecker taps and bores;
The men are merry at their chores;
And children earnest at their play。
The larger streams run still and deep;
Noisy and swift the small brooks run
Among the mullein stalks the sheep
Go up the hillside in the sun;
Pensively;only you are gone;
You that alone I cared to keep。
ROSEMARY
For the sake of some things
That be now no more
I will strew rushes
On my chamber…floor;
I will plant bergamot
At my kitchen…door。
For the sake of dim things
That were once so plain
I will set a barrel
Out to catch the rain;
I will hang an iron pot
On an iron crane。
Many things be dead and gone
That were brave and gay;
For the sake of these things
I will learn to say;
〃An it please you; gentle sirs;〃
〃Alack!〃 and 〃Well…a…day!〃
THE POET AND HIS BOOK
Down; you mongrel; Death!
Back into your kennel!
I have stolen breath
In a stalk of fennel!
You shall scratch and you shall whine
Many a night; and you shall worry
Many a bone; before you bury
One sweet bone of mine!
When shall I be dead?
When my flesh is withered;
And above my head
Yellow pollen gathered
All the empty afternoon?
When sweet lovers pause and wonder
Who am I that lie thereunder;
Hidden from the moon?
This my personal death?
That lungs be failing
To inhale the breath
Others are exhaling?
This my subtle spirit's end?
Ah; when the thawed winter splashes
Over these chance dust and ashes;
Weep not me; my friend!
Me; by no means dead
In that hour; but surely
When this book; unread;
Rots to earth obscurely;
And no more to any breast;
Close against the clamorous swelling
Of the thing there is no telling;
Are these pages pressed!
When this book is mould;
And a book of many
Waiting to be sold
For a casual penny;
In a little open case;
In a street unclean and cluttered;
Where a heavy mud is spattered
From the passing drays;
Stranger; pause and look;
From the dust of ages
Lift this little book;
Turn the tattered pages;
Read me; do not let me die!
Search the fading letters; finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!
When these veins are weeds;
When these hollowed sockets
Watch the rooty seeds
Bursting down like rockets;
And surmise the spring again;
Or; remote in that black cupboard;
Watch the pink worms writhing upward
At the smell of rain;
Boys and girls that lie
Whispering in the hedges;
Do not let me die;
Mix me with your pledges;
Boys and girls that slowly walk
In the woods; and weep; and quarrel;
Staring past the pink wild laurel;
Mix me with your talk;
Do not let me die!
Farmers at your raking;
When the sun is high;
While the hay is making;
When; along the stubble strewn;
Withering on their stalks uneaten;
Strawberries turn dark and sweeten
In the lapse of noon;
Shepherds on the hills;
In the pastures; drowsing
To the tinkling bells
Of the brown sheep browsing;
Sailors crying through the storm;
Scholars at your study; hunters
Lost amid the whirling winter's
Whiteness uniform;
Men that long for sleep;
Men that wake and revel;
If an old song leap
To your senses' level
At such moments; may it be
Sometimes; though a moment only;
Some forgotten; quaint and homely
Vehicle of me!
Women at your toil;
Women at your leisure
Till the kettle boil;
Snatch of me your pleasure;
Where the broom…straw marks the leaf;
Women quiet with your weeping
Lest you wake a workman sleeping;
Mix me with your grief!
Boys and girls that steal
From the shocking laughter
Of the old; to kneel
By a dripping rafter
Under the discolored eaves;
Out of trunks with hingeless covers
Lifting tales of saints and lovers;
Travelers; goblins; thieves;
Suns that shine by night;
Mountains made from valleys;
Bear me to the light;
Flat upon your bellies
By the webby window lie;
Where the little flies are crawling;
Read me; margin me with scrawling;
Do not let me die!
Sexton; ply your trade!
In a shower of gravel
Stamp upon your spade!
Many a rose shall ravel;
Many a metal wreath shall rust
In the rain; and I go singing
Through the lots where you are flinging
Yellow clay on dust!
ALMS
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