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dramatic lyrics-第17部分

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XVII。







Now; they ply axes and crowbars;



  Now; they prick pins at a tissue



Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar's



  Worked on the bone of a lie。 To what issue?



Where is our gain at the Two…bars?







XVIII。







_Est fuga; volvitur rota。_



  On we drift: where looms the dim port?



One; Two; Three; Four; Five; contribute their quota;



  Something is gained; if one caught but the import…



Show it us; Hugues of Saxe…Gotha!







XIX。







What with affirming; denying;



  Holding; risposting; subjoining;



All's like 。。。 it's like 。。。 for an instance I'm trying 。。。



  There! See our roof; its gilt moulding and groining



Under those spider…webs lying!







XX。







So your fugue broadens and thickens;



Greatens and deepens and lengthens;



Till we exclaim…‘‘But where's music; the dickens?



‘‘Blot ye the gold; while your spider…web strengthens



‘‘…Blacked to the stoutest of tickens?''







XXI。







I for man's effort am zealous:



  Prove me such censure unfounded!



Seems it surprising a lover grows jealous…



  Hopes 'twas for something; his organ…pipes sounded;



Tiring three boys at the bellows?







XXII。







Is it your moral of Life?



  Such a web; simple and subtle;



Weave we on earth here in impotent strife;



  Backward and forward each throwing his shuttle;



Death ending all with a knife?







XXIII。







Over our heads truth and nature…



  Still our life's zigzags and dodges;



Ins and outs; weaving a new legislature…



  God's gold just shining its last where that lodges;



Palled beneath man's usurpature。







XXIV。







So we o'ershroud stars and roses;



Cherub and trophy and garland;



Nothings grow something which quietly closes



Heaven's earnest eye: not a glimpse of the far land



Gets through our comments and glozes。







XXV。







Ah but traditions; inventions;



  (Say we and make up a visage)



So many men with such various intentions;



  Down the past ages; must know more than this age!



Leave we the web its dimensions!







XXVI。







Who thinks Hugues wrote for the deaf;



  Proved a mere mountain in labour?



Better submit; try again; what's the clef?



  'Faith; 'tis no trifle for pipe and for tabor…



Four flats; the minor in F。







XXVII。







Friend; your fugue taxes the finger



  Learning it once; who would lose it?



Yet all the while a misgiving will linger;



  Truth's golden o'er us although we refuse it…



Nature; thro' cobwebs we string her。







XXVIII。







Hugues! I advise _Me Pn_



  (Counterpoint glares like a Gorgon)



Bid One; Two; Three; Four; Five; clear the arena!



  Say the word; straight I unstop the full…organ;



Blare out the _mode Palestrina。_







XXIX。







While in the roof; if I'm right there;



  。。。 Lo you; the wick in the socket!



Hallo; you sacristan; show us a light there!



  Down it dips; gone like a rocket。



What; you want; do you; to come unawares;



Sweeping the church up for first morning…prayers;



And find a poor devil has ended his cares



At the foot of your rotten…runged rat…riddled stairs?



  Do I carry the moon in my pocket?







* 1  A fugue is a short melody。



* 2  Keyboard of organ。



* 3  A note in music。



* 4  The daughters of Danaus; condemned to pour water



*    into a sieve。



* 5  The Spanish casuist; so severely mauled by Pascal。



* 6  A quick return in fencing。



* 7  A closely woven fabric。



* 8  _Giovanni P。 da Palestrina_; celebrated musician (1524…1594)。







'End。'

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