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the three taverns-第3部分
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But a brief shine that never really was;
And fails; leaving him worse than where he was;
Then shall he be of all men destitute。
And here were not an issue for much ink;
Or much offending faction among scribes。
The Kingdom is within us; we are told;
And when I say to you that we possess it
In such a measure as faith makes it ours;
I say it with a sinner's privilege
Of having seen and heard; and seen again;
After a darkness; and if I affirm
To the last hour that faith affords alone
The Kingdom entrance and an entertainment;
I do not see myself as one who says
To man that he shall sit with folded hands
Against the Coming。 If I be anything;
I move a driven agent among my kind;
Establishing by the faith of Abraham;
And by the grace of their necessities;
The clamoring word that is the word of life
Nearer than heretofore to the solution
Of their tomb…serving doubts。 If I have loosed
A shaft of language that has flown sometimes
A little higher than the hearts and heads
Of nature's minions; it will yet be heard;
Like a new song that waits for distant ears。
I cannot be the man that I am not;
And while I own that earth is my affliction;
I am a man of earth; who says not all
To all alike。 That were impossible;
Even as it were so that He should plant
A larger garden first。 But you today
Are for the larger sowing; and your seed;
A little mixed; will have; as He foresaw;
The foreign harvest of a wider growth;
And one without an end。 Many there are;
And are to be; that shall partake of it;
Though none may share it with an understanding
That is not his alone。 We are all alone;
And yet we are all parcelled of one order
Jew; Gentile; or barbarian in the dark
Of wildernesses that are not so much
As names yet in a book。 And there are many;
Finding at last that words are not the Word;
And finding only that; will flourish aloft;
Like heads of captured Pharisees on pikes;
Our contradictions and discrepancies;
And there are many more will hang themselves
Upon the letter; seeing not in the Word
The friend of all who fail; and in their faith
A sword of excellence to cut them down。
As long as there are glasses that are dark
And there are many we see darkly through them;
All which have I conceded and set down
In words that have no shadow。 What is dark
Is dark; and we may not say otherwise;
Yet what may be as dark as a lost fire
For one of us; may still be for another
A coming gleam across the gulf of ages;
And a way home from shipwreck to the shore;
And so; through pangs and ills and desperations;
There may be light for all。 There shall be light。
As much as that; you know。 You cannot say
This woman or that man will be the next
On whom it falls; you are not here for that。
Your ministration is to be for others
The firing of a rush that may for them
Be soon the fire itself。 The few at first
Are fighting for the multitude at last;
Therefore remember what Gamaliel said
Before you; when the sick were lying down
In streets all night for Peter's passing shadow。
Fight; and say what you feel; say more than words。
Give men to know that even their days of earth
To come are more than ages that are gone。
Say what you feel; while you have time to say it。
Eternity will answer for itself;
Without your intercession; yet the way
For many is a long one; and as dark;
Meanwhile; as dreams of hell。 See not your toil
Too much; and if I be away from you;
Think of me as a brother to yourselves;
Of many blemishes。 Beware of stoics;
And give your left hand to grammarians;
And when you seem; as many a time you may;
To have no other friend than hope; remember
That you are not the first; or yet the last。
The best of life; until we see beyond
The shadows of ourselves (and they are less
Than even the blindest of indignant eyes
Would have them) is in what we do not know。
Make; then; for all your fears a place to sleep
With all your faded sins; nor think yourselves
Egregious and alone for your defects
Of youth and yesterday。 I was young once;
And there's a question if you played the fool
With a more fervid and inherent zeal
Than I have in my story to remember;
Or gave your necks to folly's conquering foot;
Or flung yourselves with an unstudied aim;
Less frequently than I。 Never mind that。
Man's little house of days will hold enough;
Sometimes; to make him wish it were not his;
But it will not hold all。 Things that are dead
Are best without it; and they own their death
By virtue of their dying。 Let them go;
But think you not the world is ashes yet;
And you have all the fire。 The world is here
Today; and it may not be gone tomorrow;
For there are millions; and there may be more;
To make in turn a various estimation
Of its old ills and ashes; and the traps
Of its apparent wrath。 Many with ears
That hear not yet; shall have ears given to them;
And then they shall hear strangely。 Many with eyes
That are incredulous of the Mystery
Shall yet be driven to feel; and then to read
Where language has an end and is a veil;
Not woven of our words。 Many that hate
Their kind are soon to know that without love
Their faith is but the perjured name of nothing。
I that have done some hating in my time
See now no time for hate; I that have left;
Fading behind me like familiar lights
That are to shine no more for my returning;
Home; friends; and honors; I that have lost all else
For wisdom; and the wealth of it; say now
To you that out of wisdom has come love;
That measures and is of itself the measure
Of works and hope and faith。 Your longest hours
Are not so long that you may torture them
And harass not yourselves; and the last days
Are on the way that you prepare for them;
And was prepared for you; here in a world
Where you have sinned and suffered; striven and seen。
If you be not so hot for counting them
Before they come that you consume yourselves;
Peace may attend you all in these last days
And me; as well as you。 Yes; even in Rome。
Well; I have talked and rested; though I fear
My rest has not been yours; in which event;
Forgive one who is only seven leagues
From Caesar。 When I told you I should come;
I did not see myself the criminal
You contemplate; for seeing beyond the Law
That which the Law saw not。 But this; indeed;
Was good of you; and I shall not forget;
No; I shall not forget you came so far
To meet a man so dangerous。 Well; farewell。
They come to tell me I am going now
With them。 I hope that we shall meet again;
But none may say what he shall find in Rome。
Demos I
All you that are enamored of my name
And least intent on what most I require;
Beware; for my design and your desire;
Deplorably; are not as yet the same。
Beware; I say; the failure and the shame
Of losing that for which you now aspire
So blindly; and of hazarding entire
The gift that I was bringing when I came。
Give as I will; I cannot give you sight
Whereby to see that with you there are some
To lead you; and be led。 But they are dumb
Before the wrangling and the shrill delight
Of your deliverance that has not come;
And shall not; if I fail you as I might。
Demos II
So little have you seen of what awaits
Your fevered glimpse of a democracy
Confused and foiled with an equality
Not equal to the envy it creates;
That you see not how near you are the gates
Of an old king who listens fearfully
To you that are outside and are to be
The noisy lords of imminent estates。
Rather be then your prayer that you shall have
Your kingdom undishonored。 Having all;
See not the great among you for the small;
But hear their silence; for the few shall save
The many; or the many are to fall
Still to be wrangling in a noisy grave。
The Flying Dutchman
Unyielding in the pride of his defiance;
Afloat with none to serve or to command;
Lord of himself at last; and all by Science;
He seeks the Vanished Land。
Alone; by the one light of his one thought;
He steers to find the shore from which we came;
Fearless of in what coil he may be caught
On seas that have no name。
Into the night he sails; and after night
There is a dawning; though there be no sun;
Wherefore; with nothing but himself in sight;
Unsighted; he sails on。
At last there is a lifting of the cloud
Between the flood before him and the sky;
And then though he may curse the Power aloud
That has no power to die
He steers himself away from what is haunted
By the old ghost of what has been before;
Abandoning; as always; and undaunted;
One fog…walled island more。
Tact
Observant of the way she told
So much of what was true;
No vanity could long withhold
Regard that was her due:
She spared him the familiar guile;
So easily achieved;
That only made a man to smile
And left him undeceived。
Aware that all imagining
Of more than what she meant
Would urge an end of everything;
He stayed; and when he went;
They parted with a merry word
That was to him as light
As any that was ever heard
Upon a starry night。
She smiled a little; knowing well
That he would not remark
The ruins of a day that fell
Around her in the dark:
He saw no ruins anywhere;
Nor fancied there were scars
On anyone who lingered there;
Alone below the stars。
On the Way
(Philadelphia; 1794)
Note。 The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton
and Aaron Burr; which is not based upon any specific incident
in American history; may be supposed to have occurred a few months previous
to Hamilton's retirement from Washington's Cabinet in 1795
and a few years before the political ingenuities of Burr
who ha
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