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dreams & dust-第11部分

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Hand seeking throat; and crook'd knee seeking

To encrook unwary leg;

And spread toes grasping the uneven ground;

The strained breast muscles cracked and creaked;

The sweat ran in my eyes;

The plagued breath sobbed and whistled through

    my throat;

I tasted blood; and strangled; but still struggled

    on

The stars above me danced in swarms like yellow

    bees;

The shaken moonlight writhed upon the rocks;

But at the last I felt his breathing weaker grow;

The tense limbs grow less tense;

And with a bursting cry I bent his head right

    back;

Back; back; until

I heard his neck bones snap;

His spine crunched in my grip;

I flung him to the earth and knelt upon his breast



And listened till the fluttering pulse was stilled。

Man; god; or devil; I had wrenched the life from

    him!



And lo!even as he died

The moonlight failed above the vale;

And somehow; sure; I know now how!

Between the rifted rocks the great Sun struck

A finger down the cliff; and that red beam

Lay sharp across the face of him that I had slain;

And in that light I read the answer of the silent

    gods

Unto my cursed…out prayer;

For he that lay upon the ground wasI!

I understood the lesson then;

It was myself that lay there dead;

Yes; I had slain my Self。





THE REBEL



No doubt the ordered worlds speed on

  With purpose in their wings;

No doubt the ordered songs are sweet

  Each worthy angel sings;

And doubtless it is wise to heed

  The ordered words of Kings;



But how the heart leaps up to greet

  The headlong; rebel flight;

Whenas some reckless meteor

  Blazes across the night!

Some cometByronLucifer

  Has dared to Be; and fight!



No doubt but it is safe to dwell

  Where ordered duties are;

No doubt the cherubs earn their wage

  Who wind each ticking star;



No doubt the system is quite right!

  Sane; ordered; regular;



But how the rebel fires the soul

  Who dares the strong gods' ire!

Each Byron!Shelley!Lucifer!

  And all the outcast choir

That chant when some Prometheus

  Leaps up to steal Jove's fire!





THE CHILD AND THE MILL



BETTER a pauper; penniless; asleep on the kindly

    sod

Better a gipsy; houseless; but near to the heart

    of God;



That beats for ears not dulled by the clanking

    wheels of care

Better starvation and freedom; hope and the good

    fresh air



Than death to the Something in him that was

    born to laugh and dream;

That was kin to the idle lilies and the ripples of

    the stream。



For out of the dreams of childhood; that careless

    come and go;

The boy gains strength; unknowing; that the Man

    will prove and know。



But these fools with their lies and their dollars;

    their mills and their bloody hands;

Who make a god of a wheel; who worship their

    whirring bands;



They are flinging the life of a people; raw; to the

    brute machines。

Dull…eyed; weary; and oldold in his early teens



Stunted and stupid and twisted; marred in the

    mills of grief;

Can your factories fashion a Man of this thing

    a Man and a Chief?



Dumb is the heart of him now; at the time when

    his heart should sing

Wasters of body and brain; what race will the

    future bring?



What of the nation's nerve whenas swift crises

    come?

What of the brawn that should heave the guns on

    the beck of the drum?





Thieves of body and soul; who can neither think

    nor feel;

Swine…eyed priests of little false gods of gold and

    steel;



Bow to your obscene altars; worship your loud

    mills then!

Feed to Moloch and Baal the brawn and brains

    of men



But silent and watchful and hidden forever over

    all

The masters brood of those Mills that 〃grind

    exceeding small。〃



And it needs no occult art nor magic to foreshow

That a people who sow defeat they will reap the

    thing they sow。



〃SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI〃



CONQUERORS leonine; lordly;

  Princes and vaunting kings;

Ye are drunk with the sound of your braggart

      trumps

  But lo! ye are little things!



Earth 。 。 。 it is charnel with monarchs!

  And the puffs of dust that start

Where your war steeds stamp with their ringing hoofs

  Were each some warrior's heart。



Peoples imperial; mighty;

  Masterful; challenging fate;

The tread of your cohorts shakes the hills

  But lo! ye are not great!



Nations that swarm and murmur;

  Ye are moths that flutter and climb

Ye are whirling gnats; ye are swirling bees;

  Tossed in the winds of time!



Earth that is flushed with glory;

  A marvelous world ye are!

But lo! in the midst of a million stars

  Ye are only one pale star!



A breath stirs the dark abysses。 。 。 。

  The deeps below the deep

Are troubled and vexed 。 。 。 and a thousand worlds

  Fall on eternal sleep!





THE COMRADE



I



HATH not man at his noblest

An air of something more than man?

A hint of grace immortal;

Born of his greatly daring to assist the gods

In conquering these shaggy wastes;

These desert worlds;

And planting life and order in these stars?

So Woman at her best:

Her eyes are bright with visions and with dreams

That triumph over time;

Her plumed thought; wing for wing; is mate with

    his。





II



The world rolls on from dream to dream;

And 'neath the vast impersonal revenges of its

    going;



Crushed fools that cried defeat

Lie dead amid the dust they prophesied

Ye doubters of man's larger destiny;

Ye that despair;

Look backward down the vistaed years;

And all is battleand all victory!

Man fought; to be a man!

Through painful centuries the slow beast fought;

Blinded and baffled; fought to gain his soul;

Wild; hairy; shag; and feared of shadows;

Yet the clouds

Made him strange signals that he puzzled o'er;

Beast; child; and ape;

And yet the winds harped to him; and the sea

Rolled in upon his consciousness

Its tides of wonder and romance;

Uncouth and caked with mire;

And yet the stars said something to him; and the

    sun

Declared itself a god;

The lagging cycles turned at last

The pictures into thought;

Thought flowered in soul;

But; oh; the myriad weary years

Ere Caliban was Shakespeare's self

And Darwin's ape had Darwin's brain!

The battling; battling; and the steep ascent;

The fight to hold the little gained;

The loss; the doubt; the shaken heart;

The stubborn; groping slow recovery!

But looking backward toward the dim beginnings;

You that despair;

Hath he not climbed and conquered?

Look backward and all's Victory!

What coward looks forward and foresees defeat?





III



Who climbed beside him; and who fought

And suffered and was glad?

Is she a lesser thing than he;

Who stained the slopes with bloody feet; or stood

Beside him on some hard…won eminence of hope

Exulting as the bold dawn swept

A harper hand along the ringing hills?

Flesh of his flesh; and of his soul the soul;

Hath she not fought; hath she not climbed?



And how is she a lesser thing?

Nay; if she ever was

'Twas we that made her so; who called her queen

But kept her slave。





IV



Had she not courage for the fight?

Hath she not courage for the years to come?

Hath she not courage who descends alone

(How pitifully alone; except for Love!)

Where man's thought even falters that would

    follow;

Into the shadowy abyss

(Through vast and murmurous caverns dark with

    crowding dread

And terrible with hovering wings);

To battle there with Death?to battle

There with Death; and wrest from him;

O Conqueror and Mother;

Life!





V



Hath she too long dwelt dream…bound in the world

    of love;



Unconscious of the sterner throes;

The more austere; impersonal; wide faith;

The urge that drives Christs to the cross

Not for the love of one beloved;

But for the love of all?

If so; she wakes!

Wakes and demands a share in all man's bolder

    destinies;

The high; audacious ventures of the soul

That thinks to scale the bastioned slopes

And strike stark Chaos from his throne。

We still stand in the dawn of time。

Not meanly let us stand nor shaken with low

    doubts!

For there beyond the verge and margin of gray cloud

The future thrills with promise

And the skies are tremulous with golden light;

She too would share those victories;

Comrade; and more than comrade;

New times; new needs confront us now;

We must evolve new powers

To battle with;

We must go forward now together;

Or perchance we fail!





ENVOI



A LITTLE WHILE



A little while the tears and laughter;

  The willow and the rose

A little while; and what comes after

  No man knows。



An hour to sing; to love and linger 。 。 。

  Then lutanist and lute

Will fall on silence; song and singer

  Both be mute。



Our gods from our desires we fashion。 。 。 。

  Exalt our baffled lives;

And dream their vital bloom and passion

  Still survives;



But when we're done with mirth and weeping;

  With myrtle; rue; and rose;

Shall Death take Life into his keeping? 。 。 。

  No man knows。



What heart hath not; through twilight places;

  Sought for its dead again

To gild with love their pallid faces? 。 。 。

  Sought in vain! 。 。 。



Still mounts the Dream on shining pinion 。 。 。

  Still broods the dull distrust 。 。 。

Which shall have ultimate dominion;

  Dream; or dust?



A little while with grief and laughter;

  And then the day will close;

The shadows gather 。 。 。 what comes after

  No man knows!











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