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phantasmagoria and other poems-第8部分
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Ah; well…a…day!
IV。
MY First is singular at best:
More plural is my Second:
My Third is far the pluralest …
So plural…plural; I protest
It scarcely can be reckoned!
My First is followed by a bird:
My Second by believers
In magic art: my simple Third
Follows; too often; hopes absurd
And plausible deceivers。
My First to get at wisdom tries …
A failure melancholy!
My Second men revered as wise:
My Third from heights of wisdom flies
To depths of frantic folly。
My First is ageing day by day:
My Second's age is ended:
My Third enjoys an age; they say;
That never seems to fade away;
Through centuries extended。
My Whole? I need a poet's pen
To paint her myriad phases:
The monarch; and the slave; of men …
A mountain…summit; and a den
Of dark and deadly mazes …
A flashing light … a fleeting shade …
Beginning; end; and middle
Of all that human art hath made
Or wit devised! Go; seek HER aid;
If you would read my riddle!
FAME'S PENNY…TRUMPET
'Affectionately dedicated to all 〃original researchers〃 who pant
for 〃endowment。〃'
BLOW; blow your trumpets till they crack;
Ye little men of little souls!
And bid them huddle at your back …
Gold…sucking leeches; shoals on shoals!
Fill all the air with hungry wails …
〃Reward us; ere we think or write!
Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails
To sate the swinish appetite!〃
And; where great Plato paced serene;
Or Newton paused with wistful eye;
Rush to the chace with hoofs unclean
And Babel…clamour of the sty
Be yours the pay: be theirs the praise:
We will not rob them of their due;
Nor vex the ghosts of other days
By naming them along with you。
They sought and found undying fame:
They toiled not for reward nor thanks:
Their cheeks are hot with honest shame
For you; the modern mountebanks!
Who preach of Justice … plead with tears
That Love and Mercy should abound …
While marking with complacent ears
The moaning of some tortured hound:
Who prate of Wisdom … nay; forbear;
Lest Wisdom turn on you in wrath;
Trampling; with heel that will not spare;
The vermin that beset her path!
Go; throng each other's drawing…rooms;
Ye idols of a petty clique:
Strut your brief hour in borrowed plumes;
And make your penny…trumpets squeak。
Deck your dull talk with pilfered shreds
Of learning from a nobler time;
And oil each other's little heads
With mutual Flattery's golden slime:
And when the topmost height ye gain;
And stand in Glory's ether clear;
And grasp the prize of all your pain …
So many hundred pounds a year …
Then let Fame's banner be unfurled!
Sing Paeans for a victory won!
Ye tapers; that would light the world;
And cast a shadow on the Sun …
Who still shall pour His rays sublime;
One crystal flood; from East to West;
When YE have burned your little time
And feebly flickered into rest!
End
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