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dramatic lyrics-第11部分
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‘‘I know that my service is perfect。 Oh; speak through me now!
‘‘Would I suffer for him that I love? So wouldst thou…so wilt thou!
‘‘So shall crown thee the topmost; ineffablest; uttermost crown…
‘‘And thy love fill infinitude wholly; nor leave up nor down
‘‘One spot for the creature to stand in! It is by no breath;
‘‘Turn of eye; wave of hand; that salvation joins issue with death!
‘‘As thy Love is discovered almighty; almighty be proved
‘‘Thy power; that exists with and for it; of being Beloved!
‘‘He who did most; shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak。
‘‘'Tis the weakness in strength; that I cry for! my flesh; that I seek
‘‘In the Godhead! I seek and I find it。 O Saul; it shall be
‘‘A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me;
‘‘Thou shalt love and be loved by; for ever: a Hand like this hand
‘‘Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!''
XIX。
I know not too well how I found my way home in the night。
There were witnesses; cohorts about me; to left and to right;
Angels; powers; the unuttered; unseen; the alive; the aware:
I repressed; I got through them as hardly; as strugglingly there;
As a runner beset by the populace famished for news…
Life or death。 The whole earth was awakened; hell loosed with her crews;
And the stars of night beat with emotion; and tingled and shot
Out in fire the strong pain of pent knowledge: but I fainted not;
For the Hand still impelled me at once and supported; suppressed
All the tumult; and quenched it with quiet; and holy behest;
Till the rapture was shut in itself; and the earth sank to rest。
Anon at the dawn; all that trouble had withered from earth…
Not so much; but I saw it die out in the day's tender birth;
In the gathered intensity brought to the grey of the hills;
In the shuddering forests' held breath; in the sudden wind…thrills;
In the startled wild beasts that bore off; each with eye sidling still
Though averted with wonder and dread; in the birds stiff and chill
That rose heavily; as I approached them; made stupid with awe:
E'en the serpent that slid away silent;…he felt the new law。
The same stared in the white humid faces upturned by the flowers;
The same worked in the heart of the cedar and moved the vine…bowers:
And the little brooks witnessing murmured; persistent and low;
With their obstinate; all but hushed voices…‘‘E'en so; it is so!''
* 1 The jumping hare。
* 2 One of the three cities of Refuge。
* 3 A brook in Jerusalem。
MY STAR。
All; that I know
Of a certain star
Is; it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red;
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see; too;
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower; hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it。
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it。
BY THE FIRE…SIDE。
I。
How well I know what I mean to do
When the long dark autumn…evenings come:
And where; my soul; is thy pleasant hue?
With the music of all thy voices; dumb
In life's November too!
II。
I shall be found by the fire; suppose;
O'er a great wise book as beseemeth age;
While the shutters flap as the cross…wind blows
And I turn the page; and I turn the page;
Not verse now; only prose!
III。
Till the young ones whisper; finger on lip;
‘‘There he is at it; deep in Greek:
‘‘Now then; or never; out we slip
‘‘To cut from the hazels by the creek
‘‘A mainmast for our ship!''
IV。
I shall be at it indeed; my friends:
Greek puts already on either side
Such a branch…work forth as soon extends
To a vista opening far and wide;
And I pass out where it ends。
V。
The outside…frame; like your hazel…trees:
But the inside…archway widens fast;
And a rarer sort succeeds to these;
And we slope to Italy at last
And youth; by green degrees。
VI。
I follow wherever I am led;
Knowing so well the leader's hand:
Oh woman…country; wooed not wed;
Loved all the more by earth's male…lands;
Laid to their hearts instead!
VII。
Look at the ruined chapel again
Half…way up in the Alpine gorge!
Is that a tower; I point you plain;
Or is it a mill; or an iron…forge
Breaks solitude in vain?
VIII。
A turn; and we stand in the heart of things:
The woods are round us; heaped and dim;
From slab to slab how it slips and springs;
The thread of water single and slim;
Through the ravage some torrent brings!
IX。
Does it feed the little lake below?
That speck of white just on its marge
Is Pella; see; in the evening…glow;
How sharp the silver spear…heads charge
When Alp meets heaven in snow!
X。
On our other side is the straight…up rock;
And a path is kept 'twixt the gorge and it
By boulder…stones where lichens mock
The marks on a moth; and small ferns fit
Their teeth to the polished block。
XI。
Oh the sense of the yellow mountain…flowers;
And thorny balls; each three in one;
The chestnuts throw on our path in showers!
For the drop of the woodland fruit's begun;
These early November hours;
XII。
That crimson the creeper's leaf across
Like a splash of blood; intense; abrupt;
O'er a shield else gold from rim to boss;
And lay it for show on the fairy…cupped
Elf…needled mat of moss;
XIII。
By the rose…flesh mushrooms; undivulged
Last evening…nay; in to…day's first dew
Yon sudden coral nipple bulged;
Where a freaked fawn…coloured flaky crew
Of toadstools peep indulged。
XIV。
And yonder; at foot of the fronting ridge
That takes the turn to a range beyond;
Is the chapel reached by the one…arched bridge
Where the water is stopped in a stagnant pond
Danced over by the midge。
XV。
The chapel and bridge are of stone alike;
Blackish…grey and mostly wet;
Cut hemp…stalks steep in the narrow dyke。
See here again; how the lichens fret
And the roots of the ivy strike!
XVI。
Poor little place; where its one priest comes
On a festa…day; if he comes at all;
To the dozen folk from their scattered homes;
Gathered within that precinct small
By the dozen ways one roams…
XVII。
To drop from the charcoal…burners' huts;
Or climb from the hemp…dressers' low shed;
Leave the grange where the woodman stores his nuts;
Or the wattled cote where the fowlers spread
Their gear on the rock's bare juts。
XVIII。
It has some pretension too; this front;
With its bit of fresco half…moon…wise
Set over the porch; Art's early wont:
'Tis John in the Desert; I surmise;
But has borne the weather's brunt…
XIX。
Not from the fault of the builder; though;
For a pent…house properly projects
Where three carved beams make a certain show;
Dating…good thought of our architect's…
'Five; six; nine; he lets you know。
XX。
And all day long a bird sings there;
And a stray sheep drinks at the pond at times;
The place is silent and aware;
It has had its scenes; its joys and crimes;
But that is its own affair。
XXI。
My perfect wife; my Leonor;
Oh heart; my own; oh eyes; mine too;
Whom else could I dare look backward for;
With whom beside should I dare pursue
The path grey heads abhor?
XXII。
For it leads to a crag's sheer edge with them;
Youth; flowery all the way; there stops…
Not they; age threatens and they contemn;
Till they reach the gulf wherein youth drops;
One inch from life's safe hem!
XXIII。
With me; youth led 。。。 I will speak now;
No longer watch you as you sit
Reading by fire…light; that great brow
And the spirit…small hand propping it;
Mutely; my heart knows how…
XXIV。
When; if I think but deep enough;
You are wont to answer; prompt as rhyme;
And you; too; find without rebuff
Response your soul seeks many a time
Piercing its fine flesh…stuff。
XXV。
My own; confirm me! If I tread
This path back; is it not in pride
To think how little I dreamed it led
To an age so blest that; by its side;
Youth seems the waste instead?
XXVI。
My own; see where the years conduct!
At first; 'twas something our two souls
Should mix as mists do; each is sucked
In each now: on; the new stream rolls;
Whatever rocks obstruct。
XXVII。
Think; when our one soul understands
The great Word which makes all things new;
When earth breaks up and heaven expands;
How will the change strike me and you
ln the house not made with hands?
XXVIII。
Oh I must feel your b
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