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dreams & dust-第6部分
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A RHYME OF THE ROADS
PEARL…SLASHED and purple and crimson and
fringed with gray mist of the hills;
The pennons of morning advance to the music of
rock…fretted rills;
The dumb forest quickens to song; and the little
gusts shout as they fling
A floor…cloth of orchard bloom down for the flash…
ing; quick feet of the Spring。
To the road; gipsy…heart; thou and I! 'Tis the
mad piper; Spring; who is leading;
'Tis the pulse of his piping that throbs through
the brain; irresistibly pleading;
Full…blossomed; deep…bosomed; fain woman; light…
footed; lute…throated and fleet;
We have drunk of the wine of this Wanderer's song;
let us follow his feet!
Like raveled red girdles flung down by some
hoidenish goddess in mirth
The tangled roads reach from rim unto utter…
most rim of the earth
We will weave of these strands a strong net; we
will snare the bright wings of delight;
We will make of these strings a sweet lute that
will shame the low wind…harps of night。
The clamor of tongues and the clangor of trades
in the peevish packed street;
The arrogant; jangling Nothings; with iterant; dis…
sonant beat;
The clattering; senseless endeavor with dross of
mere gold for its goal;
These have sickened the senses and wearied the
brain and straitened the soul。
〃Come forth and be cleansed of the folly of strife
for things worthless of strife;
Come forth and gain life and grasp God by fore…
going gains worthless of life〃
It was thus spake the wizard wildwood; low…
voiced to the hearkening heart;
It was thus sang the jovial hills; and the harper
sun bore part。
O woman; whose blood as my blood with the fire
of the Spring is aflame;
We did well; when the red roads called; that we
heeded the call and came
Came forth to the sweet wise silence where soul
may speak sooth unto soul;
Vine…wreathed and vagabond Love; with the goal
of Nowhere for our goal!
What planet…crowned Dusk that wanders the
steeps of our firmament there
Hath gems that may match with the dew…opals
meshed in thine opulent hair?
What wind…witch that skims the curled billows
with feet they are fain to caress
Hath sandals so wing'd as thine art with a god…
like carelessness?
And dare we not dream this is heaven?to wan…
der thus on; ever on。
Through the hush…heavy valleys of space; up the
flushing red slopes of the dawn?
For none that seeks rest shall find rest till he
ceaseth his striving for rest;
And the gain of the quest is the joy of the road
that allures to the quest。
THE LAND OF YESTERDAY
AND I would seek the country town
Amid green meadows nestled down
If I could only find the way
Back to the Land of Yesterday!
How I would thrust the miles aside;
Rush up the quiet lane; and then;
Just where her roses laughed in pride;
Find her among the flowers again。
I'd slip in silently and wait
Until she saw me by the gate;
And then 。 。 。 read through a blur of tears
Quick pardon for the selfish years。
This time; this time; I would not wait
For that brief wire that said; Too late!
If I could only find the way
Into the Land of Yesterday。
I wonder if her roses yet
Lift up their heads and laugh with pride;
And if her phlox and mignonette
Have heart to blossom by their side;
I wonder if the dear old lane
Still chirps with robins after rain;
And if the birds and banded bees
Still rob her early cherry…trees。 。 。 。
I wonder; if I went there now;
How everything would seem; and how
But no! not now; there is no way
Back to the Land of Yesterday。
OCTOBER
CEASE to call him sad and sober;
Merriest of months; October!
Patron of the bursting bins;
Reveler in wayside inns;
I can nowhere find a trace
Of the pensive in his face;
There is mingled wit and folly;
But the madcap lacks the grace
Of a thoughtful melancholy。
Spendthrift of the seasons' gold;
How he flings and scatters out
Treasure filched from summer…time!
Never ruffling squire of old
Better loved a tavern bout
When Prince Hal was in his prime。
Doublet slashed with gold and green;
Cloak of crimson; changeful sheen;
Of the dews that gem his breast;
Frosty lace about his throat;
Scarlet plumes that flaunt and float
Backward in a gay unrest
Where's another gallant drest
With such tricksy gaiety;
Such unlessoned vanity?
With his amber afternoons
And his pendant poets' moons
With his twilights dashed with rose
From the red…lipped afterglows
With his vocal airs at dawn
Breathing hints of Helicon
Bacchanalian bees that sip
Where his cider…presses drip
With the winding of the horn
Where his huntsmen meet the morn
With his every piping breeze
Shaking from familiar trees
Apples of Hesperides
With the chuckle; chirp; and trill
Of his jolly brooks that spill
Mirth in tangled madrigals
Down pebble…dappled waterfalls
(Brooks that laugh and make escape
Through wild arbors where the grape
Purples with a promise of
Racy vintage rare as love)
With his merry; wanton air;
Mirth and vanity and folly
Why should he be made to bear
Burden of some melancholy
Song that swoons and sinks with care?
Cease to call him sad or sober;
He's a jolly dog; October!
CHANT OF THE CHANGING HOURS
THE Hours passed by; a fleet; confused crowd;
With wafture of blown garments bright as fire;
Light; light of foot and laughing; morning…browed;
And where they trod the jonquil and the briar
Thrilled into jocund life; the dreaming dells
Waked to a morrice chime of jostled bells;
They danced! they danced! to piping such as
flings
The garnered music of a million Springs
Into one single; keener ecstasy;
One paused and shouted to my questionings:
〃Lo; I am Youth; I bid thee follow me!〃
The Hours passed by; they paced; great lords and
proud;
Crowned on with sunlight; robed in rich attire;
Before their conquering word the brute deed
bowed;
And Ariel fancies served their large desire;
They spake; and roused the mused soul that dwells
In dust; or; smiling; shaped new heavens and
hells;
Dethroned old gods and made blind beggars kings:
〃And what art thou;〃 I cried to one; 〃that brings
His mistress; for a brooch; the Galaxy?〃
〃I am the plumed Thought that soars and sings:
Lo; I am Song; I bid thee follow me!〃
The Hours passed by; with veiled eyes endowed
Of dream; and parted lips that scarce suspire;
To breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight vowed;
South wind and shadowy grove and murmuring
lyre;
Swaying they moved; as drows'd of wizard spells
Or tranc'd with sight of recent miracles;
And yet they trembled; down their folded wings
Quivered the hint of sweet withholden things;
Ah; bitter…sweet in their intensity!
One paused and said unto my wonderings:
〃Lo; I am Love; I bid thee follow me!〃
The Hours passed by; through huddled cities loud
With witless hate and stale with stinking mire:
So cowled monks might march with bier and shroud
Down streets plague…spotted toward some cleans…
ing pyre;
Yet; lo! strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells;
And passionate spirits burst their clayey shells
And sang the stricken hope that bleeds and
clings:
Earth's bruised heart beat in the throbbing strings;
And joy still struggled through the threnody!
One stern Hour said unto my marvelings:
〃Lo; I am Life; I bid thee follow me!〃
The Hours passed by; the stumbling hours and
cowed;
Uncertain; prone to tears and childish ire;
The wavering hours that drift like any cloud
At whim of winds or fortunate or dire;
The feeble shapes that any chance expells;
Their wisdom useless; lacking the blood that swells
The tensed vein: the hot; swift tide that stings
With life。 Ah; wise! but naked to the slings
Of fate; and plagued of youthful memory!
A cracked voice broke upon my pityings:
〃Lo; I am Age; I bid thee follow me!〃
Ah; Youth! we dallied by the babbling wells
Where April all her lyric secret tells;
Ah; Song! we sped our bold imaginings
As far as yon red planet's triple rings;
O Life! O Love! I followed; followed thee!
There waits one word to end my journeyings:
〃Lo; I am Death; I bid thee follow me!〃
DREAMS AND DUST
SELVES
My dust in ruined Babylon
Is blown along the level plain;
And songs of mine at dawn have soared
Above the blue Sicilian main。
We are ourselves; and not ourselves 。 。 。
For ever thwarting pride and will
Some forebear's passion leaps from death
To claim a vital license still。
Ancestral lusts that slew and died;
Resurgent; swell each living vein;
Old doubts and faiths; new panoplied;
Dispute the mastery of the brain。
The love of liberty that flames
From written rune and stricken reed
Shook the hot hearts of swordsmen sires
At Marathon and Runnymede。
What are these things we call our 〃selves〃? 。 。 。
Have I not shouted; sobbed; and died
In the bright surf of spears that broke
Where Greece rolled back the Persian tide?
Are we who breathe more quick than they
Whose bones are dust within the tomb?
Nay; as I write; what gray old ghosts
Murmur and mock me from the gloom。 。 。 。
They call 。 。 。 across strange seas they call;
Strange seas; and haunted coasts of time。 。 。 。
They startle me with wordless songs
To which the Sphinx hath known the rhyme。
Our hearts swell big with dead men's hates;
Our eyes sting hot with dead men's tears;
We are ourselves; but not ourselves;
Born heirs; but serfs; to all the years!
I rode with Nimrod 。 。 。 strove at
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