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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。







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