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dreams & dust-第10部分

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Broadened the bounded spirit's scope?

Or died to make the dull world hope?〃



Must man still be the slave of Use?

  But these men; careless and elate;

Join battle with a burly world

  Or come to wrestling grips with fate;

And not for any good nor gain

  Nor any fame that may befall

But; thrilling in the clutch of life;

  Heed the loud challenge and the call;

And grown to symbols at the last;

  Stand in heroic silhouette

  Against horizons ultimate;

  As towers that front lost seas are set;



The reckless gesture; the strong pose;

  Sharp battle…cry flung back to Earth;

And buoyant humor; as a god

Might say: 〃Lo; here my feet have trod!〃

  There lies the meaning and the worth!



They bring no golden treasure home;

  They win no acres for their clan;

Nor dream nor deed of theirs shall mend

  The ills of man's bedeviled span

Nor are they skilled in sleights of speech;

  (Nor overeager) to make plain

The use they serve; transcending use;

  The gain beyond apparent gain!





EARLY AUTUMN



WITH half…hearted levies of frost that make foray;

    retire; and refrain

Ambiguous bugles that blow and that falter to

    silence again



With banners of mist that still waver above them;

    advance and retreat;

The hosts of the Autumn still hide in the hills;

    for a doubt stays their feet;



But anon; with a barbaric splendor to dazzle the

    eyes that behold;

And regal in raiment of purple and umber and

    amber and gold;



And girt with the glamor of conquest and scarved

    with red symbols of pride;

From the hills in their might and their mirth on

    the steeds of the wind will they ride;



To make sport and make spoil of the Summer;

    who dwells in a dream on the plain;

Still tented in opulent ease in the camps of her

    indolent train。





〃TIME STEALS FROM LOVE〃



TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings;

And how should aught but evil things;

  Or any good but death; befall

  Him that is thrall unto Time's thrall;

Slave to the lesser of these Kings?



O heart of youth that wakes and sings!

O golden vows and golden rings!

  Life mocks you with the tale of all

    Time steals from Love!



O riven lute and writhen strings;

Dead bough whereto no blossom clings;

  The glory was ephemeral!

  Nor may our Autumn grief recall

The passion of the perished Springs

    Time steals from Love!





THE RONDEAU



YOUR rondeau's tale must still be light

No bugle…call to life's stern fight!

  Rather a smiling interlude

  Memorial to some transient mood

Of idle love and gala…night。



Its manner is the merest sleight

O' hand; yet therein dwells its might;

  For if the heavier touch intrude

    Your rondeau's stale。



Fragrant and fragile; fleet and bright;

And wing'd with whim; it gleams in flight

  Like April blossoms wind…pursued

  Down aisles of tangled underwood;

Nor be too serious when you write

    Your rondeau's tail!





VISITORS



THEY haunt me; they tease me with hinted

Withheld revelations;

The songs that I may not utter;

They lead me; they flatter; they woo me。

I follow; I follow; I snatch

At the veils of their secrets in vain

For lo! they have left me and vanished;

The songs that I cannot sing。



There are visions elusive that come

With a quiver and shimmer of wings;

Shapes shadows and shapes; and the murmur

Of voices;

Shapes; that out of the twilight

Leap; and with gesture appealing

Seem to deliver a message;

And are gone 'twixt a breath and a breath;

Shapes that race in with the waves

Moving silverly under the moon;



And are gone ere they break into foam on the rocks

And recede;

Breathings of love from invisible

Flutes;

Blown somewhere out in the tender

Dusk;

That die on the bosom of Silence;

Formless;

And fleeter than thought;

Vaguer than thought or emotion;

What are these visitors?



Out of the vast and uncharted

Realms that encircle the visible world;

With a glimmer of light on their pinions;

They rush 。 。 。

They waver; they vanish;

Leaving me stirred with a dream of the ultimate

    beauty;

A sense of the ultimate music;

I never shall capture;



They are Beauty;

Formless and tremulous Beauty;



Beauty unborn;

Beauty as yet unappareled

In thought;

Beauty that hesitates;

Falters;

Withdraws from the verge of birth;

Flutters;

Retreats from the portals of life;

O Beauty for ever uncaptured!

O songs that I never shall sing!





THE PARTING



WE have come 〃the primrose way;〃

  Folly; thou and I!

Such a glamor and a grace

Ever glimmered on thy face;

Ever such a witchery

Lit the laughing eyes of thee;

Could a fool like me withstand

Folly's feast and beckoning hand?

Drinking; how thy lips' caress

Spiced the cup of waywardness!

So we came 〃the primrose way;〃

  Folly; thou and I!



But now; Folly; we must part;

  Folly; thou and I!

Shall one look with mirth or tears

Back on all his wasted years;

Purposes dissolved in wine;

Pearls flung to the heedless swine?



Idle days and nights of mirth;

Were they pleasures nothing worth?

Well; there's no gainsaying we

Squandered youth right merrily!

But now; Folly; we must part;

  Folly; thou and I!





AN OPEN FIRE



THESE logs with drama and with dream are rife;

  For all their golden Summers and green Springs

Through leaf and root they sucked the forest's life;

  Drank in its secret; deep; essential things;

Its midwood moods; its mystic runes;

  Its breathing hushes stirred of faery wings;

Its August nights and April noons;

The garnered fervors of forgotten Junes

Flare forth again and waste away;

  And in the sap that leaps and sings

  We hear again the chant the cricket flings

Across the hawthorn…scented dusks of May。













REALITIES









REALITIES



WE are deceived by the shadow; we see not the

    substance of things。

For the hills are less solid than thought; and

    deeds are but vapors; and flesh

Is a mist thrown off and resumed by the soul; as

    a world by a god。

Back of the transient appearance dwells in inef…

    fable calm

The utter reality; ultimate truth; this seems and

    that is。





THE STRUGGLE



I HAVE been down in a dark valley;

I have been groping through a deep gorge;

Far above; the lips of it were rimmed with moon…

    light;

And here and there the light lay on the dripping

    rocks

So that it seemed they dripped with moonlight;

    not with water;

So deep it was; that narrow gash among the hills;

That those great pines which fringed its edge

Seemed to me no larger than upthrust fingers

Silhouetted against the sky;

And at its top the vale was strait;

And the rays were slant

And reached but part way down the sides;

I could not see the moon itself;

I walked through darkness; and the valley's edge

Seemed almost level with the stars;

The stars that were like fireflies in the little trees。



It was the midnight of defeat;

I felt that I had failed;

I was mocked of the gods;

There was no way out of that gorge;

The paths led no whither

And I could not remember their beginnings;

I was doomed to wander evermore;

Thirsty; with the sound of mocking waters in

    mine ears;

Groping; with gleams of useless light

Splashed in ironic beauty on the rocks above。

And so I whined。



And then despair flashed into rage;

I leapt erect; and cried:

〃Could I but grasp my life as sculptors grasp the clay

And knead and thrust it into shape again!

If all the scorn of Heaven were but thrown

Into the focus of some creature I could clutch!

If something tangible were but vouchsafed me

By the cold; far gods!

If they but sent a Reason for the failure of my life

I'd answer it;

If they but sent a Fiend; I'd conquer it!



But I reach out; and grasp the air;

I rage; and the brute rock echoes my words in

    mockery

How can one fight the sliding moonlight on the cliffs?

You gods; coward gods;

Come down; I challenge you!

You who set snares with roses and with passion;

You who make flesh beautiful and damn men through

    the flesh;

You who plump the purple grape and then put poison

    in the cup;

You who put serpents in your Edens;

You who gave me delight of my senses and broke me

    for it;

You who have mingled death with beauty;

You who have put into my blood the impulses for

    which you cursed me;

You who permitted my brain the doubts wherefore

    you damn me;

Behold; I doubt you; gods; no longer; but defy!

I perish here?

Then I will be slain of a god!

You who have wrapped me in the scorn of your silence;

The divinity in this same dust you flout



i》Flames through the dust;

And dares;

And flings you back your scorn;

Come; face to face; and slay me if you will;

But not until you've felt the weight

Of all betricked humanity's contempt

In one bold blow!

Speak forth a Reason; and I will answer it;

Yes; to your faces I will answer it;

Come garmented in flesh and I will fight with you;

Yes; in your faces will I smite you; gods;

Coward gods and tricksters that set traps

In paradise!

Far gods that hedge yourselves about with silence

And with distance;

That mock men from the unscalable escarpments of

    your Heavens。〃



Thus I raved; being mad。

I had no sooner finished speaking than I felt

The darkness fluttered by approaching feet;

And the silence was burned through by trembling

    flames of sound;

And I was 'ware that Something stood by me。



And with a shout I leapt and grasped that Being;

And the Thing grasped me。

We came to wrestling grips;

And back and forth we swayed;

Hand seeking throat; and crook'd knee seeking

To encrook unwary leg;

And spread toes grasp
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