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dreams & dust-第5部分

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  Still the subtle beaches

Draw you back where Horror

  Walks their shingled reaches 。 。 。

Ever shall your spirit

  Hear the surf resounding;

Evermore the ocean

  Thwarting you and bounding;

Vainly struggle inland!

  Lashing you and hounding;

Still the vision hales you

  From the upland reaches;

Goading you and gripping;

  Binds you to the beaches!



Ever; ever; ever;

  Ever shall her laughter;

Hunting you and haunting;

  Mock and follow after;

Rising where the buoy…bell

  Clangs across the shallows;



Leaping where the spindrift

  Hurtles o'er the hollows;

Ringing where the moonlight

  Gleams along the billows;

Ever; ever; ever;

  Ever shall her laughter;

Hounding you and haunting;

  Whip and follow after!





IV



SUNSET



I stood among the boats

The sinking sun; the angry sun;

  Across the sullen wave

Laid the sudden strength of his red wrath

  Like to a shaken glaive:

Or did the sun pause in the west

  To lift a sword at me;

  Or was it she; or was it she;

Rose for an instant on some crest

And plucked the red blade from her breast

  And brandished it at me?





THE TAVERN OF DESPAIR



THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves

  Come whispering at the door;

Come creeping through the weeping mist

  That drapes the barren moor;

But we within have turned the key

  'Gainst Hope and Love and Care;

Where Wit keeps tryst with Folly; at

  The Tavern of Despair。



And we have come by divers ways

  To keep this merry tryst;

But few of us have kept within

  The Narrow Way; I wist;

For we are those whose ampler wits

  And hearts have proved our curse

Foredoomed to ken the better things

  And aye to do the worse!



Long since we learned to mock ourselves;

  And from self…mockery fell



To heedless laughter in the face

  Of Heaven; Earth; and Hell。

We quiver 'neath; and mock; God's rod;

  We feel; and mock; His wrath;

We mock our own blood on the thorns

  That rim the 〃Primrose Path。〃



We mock the eerie glimmering shapes

  That range the outer wold;

We mock our own cold hearts because

  They are so dead and cold;

We flout the things we might have been

  Had self to self proved true;

We mock the roses flung away;

  We mock the garnered rue;



The fates that gibe have lessoned us;

  There sups to…night on earth

No madder crew of wastrels than

  This fellowship of mirth。 。 。 。

(Of mirth 。 。 。 drink; fools!nor let it flag

  Lest from the outer mist

Creep in that other company

  Unbidden to the tryst。



We're grown so fond of paradox

  Perverseness holds us thrall;

So what each jester loves the best

  He mocks the most of all;

But as the jest and laugh go round;

  Each in his neighbor's eyes

Reads; while he flouts his heart's desire;

  The knowledge that he lies。



Not one of us but had some pearls

  And flung them to the swine;

Not one of us but had some gift

  Some spark of fire divine

Each might have been God's minister

  In the temple of some art

Each feels his gift perverted move

  Wormlike through his dry heart。



If God called Azrael to Him now

  And bade Death bend the bow

Against the saddest heart that beats

  Here on this earth below;

Not any sobbing breast would gain

  The guerdon of that barb



The saddest ones are those that wear

  The jester's motley garb。



Whose shout aye loudest rings; and whose

  The maddest cranks and quips

Who mints his soul to laughter's coin

  And wastes it with his lips

Has grown too sad for sighs and seeks

  To cheat himself with mirth;

We fools self…doomed to motley are

  The weariest wights on earth!



But yet; for us whose brains and hearts

  Strove aye in paths perverse;

Doomed still to know the better things

  And still to do the worse;

What else is there remains for us

  But make a jest of care

And set the rafters ringing; in

  Our Tavern of Despair?









COLORS AND SURFACES











A GOLDEN LAD



(D。 V。 M。)



〃Golden lads and lasses must

 Like chimney…sweepers come to dust。〃

SHAKESPEARE。



So young; but already the splendor

  Of genius robed him about

Already the dangerous; tender

  Regard of the gods marked him out



(On whom the burden and duty

  They bind; at his earliest breath;

Of showing their own grave beauty;

  They love and they crown with death。)



We were of one blood; but the olden

  Rapt poets spake out in his tone;

We were of one blood; but the golden

  Rathe promise was his; his alone。



And ever his great eye glistened

  With visions I could not see;

Ever he thrilled and listened

  To voices withholden from me。



Young lord of the realms of fancy;

  The bright dreams flocked to his call

Like sprites that the necromancy

  Of a Prospero holds in thrall



Quick visions that served and attended;

  Elusive and hovering things;

With a quiver of joy in the splendid

  Wild sweep of their luminous wings;



He dwelt in an alien glamor;

  He wrought of its gleams a crown;

But the world; with its cruelty and clamor;

  Broke him and beat him down;



So he passed; he was worn; he was weary;

  He was slain at the touch of life;

With a smile that was wistful and eerie

  He passed from the senseless strife;



So he ceased (is their humor satiric;

  These gods that make perfect and blight?)

He ceased like an exquisite lyric

  That dies on the breast of night。





THE SAGE AND THE WOMAN



'TWIXT ancient Beersheba and Dan

Another such a caravan

Dazed Palestine had never seen

As that which bore Sabea's queen

Up from the fain and flaming South

To slake her yearning spirit's drouth

  At wisdom's pools; with Solomon。



With gifts of scented sandalwood;

And labdanum; and cassia…bud;

With spicy spoils of Araby

And camel…loads of ivory

And heavy cloths that glanced and shone

With inwrought pearl and beryl…stone

  She came; a bold Sabean girl。



And did she find him grave; or gay?

  Perchance his palace breathed that day

With psalters sounding solemnly

Or cymbals' merrier minstrelsy

Perchance the wearied monarch heard

Some loose…tongued prophet's meddling word;

  None knows; no onebut Solomon!



She lookedwith eyne wherein were blent

All ardors of the Orient;

She spakeall magics of the South

Were compassed in the witch's mouth;

He thought the scarlet lips of her

More precious than En Gedi's myrrh;

  The lips of that Sabean girl;



By many an amorous sun caressed;

From lifted brow to amber breast

She gleamed in vivid loveliness

And lithe as any leopardess

And verily; one blames thee not

If thine own proverbs were forgot;

  O Solomon; wise Solomon!



She danced for him; and surely she

Learnt dancing from some moonlit sea



Where elfin vapors swirled and swayed

While the wild pipes of witchcraft played

Such clutching music 'twould impel

A prophet's self to dance to hell

  So spun the light Sabean girl。



He swore her laughter had the lilt

Of chiming waters that are spilt

In sprays of spurted melody

From founts of carven porphyry;

And in the billowy turbulence

Of her dusk hair drowned soul and sense

  Dark tides and deep; O Solomon!



Perchance unto her day belongs

His poem called the Song of Songs;

Each little lyric interval

Timed to her pulse's rise and fall;

Or when he cried out wearily

That all things end in vanity

  Did he mean that Sabean girl?



The bright barbaric opulence;

The sun…kist Temple; Kedar's tents;



How many a careless caravan

'Twixt Beersheba and ruined Dan;

Within these forty centuries;

Has flung their dust to many a breeze;

  With dust that was King Solomon!



But still the lesson holds as true;

O King; as when she lessoned you:

That very wise men are not wise

Until they read in Folly's eyes

The wisdom that escapes the schools;

That bids the sage revise his rules

  By light of some Sabean girl!





NEWS FROM BABYLON



  〃Archaeologists have discovered a love…letter among the ruins

of Babylon。〃  Newspaper report。



The world hath just one tale to tell; and it is very old;

A little talea simple talea tale that's easy told:

〃There was a youth in Babylon who greatly loved a

    maid!〃

The world hath just one song to sing; but sings it

    unafraid;

A little songa foolish songthe only song it hath:

〃There was a youth in Ascalon who loved a girl in

    Gath!〃



Homer clanged it; Omar twanged it; Greece and

    Persia knew!

Nimrod's reivers; Hiram's weavers; Hindu; Kurd;

    and Jew

Crowning Tyre; Troy afire; they have dreamed

    the dream;

Tiber…side and Nilus…tide brightened with the

    gleam



Oh; the suing; sighing; wooing; sad and merry

    hours;

Blisses tasted; kisses wasted; building Babel's

    towers!

Hearts were aching; hearts were breaking; lashes

    wet with dew;

When the ships touched the lips of islands Sappho

    knew;

Yearning breasts and burning breasts; cold at last;

    are hid

Amid the glooms of carven tombs in Khufu's

    pyramid

Though the sages; down the ages; smile their cynic

    doubt;

Man and maid; unafraid; put the schools to rout;

Seek to chain love and retain love in the bonds of

    breath;

Vow to hold love; bind and fold love even unto

    death!



The dust of forty centuries has buried Babylon;

And out of all her lovers dead rises only one;

Rises with a song to sing and laughter in his eyes;

The old songthe only songfor all the rest are lies!



For; oh; the world has just one dream; and it is very

    old

'Tis youth's dreama silly dreambut it is flushed

    with gold!





A RHYME OF THE ROADS



PEARL…SLASHED and purple and crimson and

    fringed with gray mist of the hi
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