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dramatic lyrics-第2部分
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The sands slide; nor abide
(As I ride; as I ride)
O'er each visioned homicide
That came vaunting (has he lied?)
To reside…where he died;
As I ride; as I ride。
IV。
As I ride; as I ride;
Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied;
Yet his hide; streaked and pied;
As I ride; as I ride;
Shows where sweat has sprung and dried;
…Zebra…footed; ostrich…thighed…
How has vied stride with stride
As I ride; as I ride!
V。
As I ride; as I ride;
Could I loose what Fate has tied;
Ere I pried; she should hide
(As I ride; as I ride)
All that's meant me…satisfied
When the Prophet and the Bride
Stop veins I'd have subside
As I ride; as I ride!
NATIONALITY IN DRINKS。
I。
My heart sank with our Claret…flask;
Just now; beneath the heavy sedges
That serve this Pond's black face for mask
And still at yonder broken edges
O' the hole; where up the bubbles glisten;
After my heart I look and listen。
II。
Our laughing little flask; compelled
Thro' depth to depth more bleak and shady;
As when; both arms beside her held;
Feet straightened out; some gay French lady
Is caught up from life's light and motion;
And dropped into death's silent ocean!
…
Up jumped Tokay on our table;
Like a pygmy castle…warder;
Dwarfish to see; but stout and able;
Arms and accoutrements all in order;
And fierce he looked North; then; wheeling South;
Blew with his bugle a challenge to Drouth;
Cocked his flap…hat with the tosspot…feather;
Twisted his thumb in his red moustache;
Jingled his huge brass spurs together;
Tightened his waist with its Buda sash;
And then; with an impudence nought could abash;
Shrugged his hump…shoulder; to tell the beholder;
For twenty such knaves he should laugh but the bolder:
And so; with his sword…hilt gallantly jutting;
And dexter…hand on his haunch abutting;
Went the little man; Sir Ausbruch; strutting!
…
Here's to Nelson's memory!
'Tis the second time that I; at sea;
Right off Cape Trafalgar here;
Have drunk it deep in British Beer。
Nelson for ever…any time
Am I his to command in prose or rhyme!
Give me of Nelson only a touch;
And I save it; be it little or much:
Here's one our Captain gives; and so
Down at the word; by George; shall it go!
He says that at Greenwich they point the beholder
To Nelson's coat; ‘‘still with tar on the shoulder:
‘‘For he used to lean with one shoulder digging;
‘‘Jigging; as it were; and zig…zag…zigging
‘‘Up against the mizen…rigging!''
GARDEN FANCIES。
I。 THE FLOWER'S NAME
Here's the garden she walked across;
Arm in my arm; such a short while since:
Hark; now I push its wicket; the moss
Hinders the hinges and makes them wince!
She must have reached this shrub ere she turned;
As back with that murmur the wicket swung;
For she laid the poor snail; my chance foot spurned;
To feed and forget it the leaves among。
II。
Down this side ofthe gravel…walk
She went while her rope's edge brushed the box:
And here she paused in her gracious talk
To point me a moth on the milk…white phlox。
Roses; ranged in valiant row;
I will never think that she passed you by!
She loves you noble roses; I know;
But yonder; see; where the rock…plants lie!
III。
This flower she stopped at; finger on lip;
Stooped over; in doubt; as settling its claim;
Till she gave me; with pride to make no slip;
Its soft meandering Spanish name:
What a name! Was it love or praise?
Speech half…asleep or song half…awake?
I must learn Spanish; one of these days;
Only for that slow sweet name's sake。
IV。
Roses; if I live and do well;
I may bring her; one of these days;
To fix you fast with as fine a spell;
Fit you each with his Spanish phrase;
But do not detain me now; for she lingers
There; like sunshine over the ground;
And ever I see her soft white fingers
Searching after the bud she found。
V。
Flower; you Spaniard; look that you grow not;
Stay as you are and be loved for ever!
Bud; if I kiss you 'tis that you blow not:
Mind; the shut pink mouth opens never!
For while it pouts; her fingers wrestle;
Twinkling the audacious leaves between;
Till round they turn and down they nestle…
Is not the dear mark still to be seen?
VI。
Where I find her not; beauties vanish;
Whither I follow ber; beauties flee;
Is there no method to tell her in Spanish
June's twice June since she breathed it with me?
Come; bud; show me the least of her traces;
Treasure my lady's lightest footfall!
…Ah; you may flout and turn up your faces…
Roses; you are not so fair after all!
II。 SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS。
Plague take all your pedants; say I!
He who wrote what I hold in my hand;
Centuries back was so good as to die;
Leaving this rubbish to cumber the land;
This; that was a book in its time;
Printed on paper and bound in leather;
Last month in the white of a matin…prime
Just when the birds sang all together。
II。
Into the garden I brought it to read;
And under the arbute and laurustine
Read it; so help me grace in my need;
From title…page to closing line。
Chapter on chapter did I count;
As a curious traveller counts Stonehenge;
Added up the mortal amount;
And then proceeded to my revenge。
III。
Yonder's a plum…tree with a crevice
An owl would build in; were he but sage;
For a lap of moss; like a fine pont…levis
In a castle of the Middle Age;
Joins to a lip of gum; pure amber;
When he'd be private; there might he spend
Hours alone in his lady's chamber:
Into this crevice I dropped our friend。
IV。
Splash; went he; as under he ducked;
…At the bottom; I knew; rain…drippings stagnate:
Next; a handful of blossoms I plucked
To bury him with; my bookshelf's magnate;
Then I went in…doors; brought out a loaf;
Half a cheese; and a bottle of Chablis;
Lay on the grass and forgot the oaf
Over a jolly chapter of Rabelais。
V。
Now; this morning; betwixt the moss
And gum that locked our friend in limbo;
A spider had spun his web across;
And sat in the midst with arms akimbo:
So; I took pity; for learning's sake;
And; _de profundis; accentibus ltis;
Cantate!_ quoth I; as I got a rake;
And up I fished his delectable treatise。
VI。
Here you have it; dry in the sun;
With all the binding all of a blister;
And great blue spots where the ink has run;
And reddish streaks that wink and glister
O'er the page so beautifully yellow:
Oh; well have the droppings played their tricks!
Did he guess how toadstools grow; this fellow?
Here's one stuck in his chapter six!
VII。
How did he like it when the live creatures
Tickled and toused and browsed him all over;
And worm; slug; eft; with serious features;
Came in; each one; for his right of trover?
…When the water…beetle with great blind deaf face
Made of her eggs the stately deposit;
And the newt borrowed just so much of the preface
As tiled in the top of his black wife's closet?
VIII。
All that life and fun and romping;
All that frisking and twisting and coupling;
While slowly our poor friend's leaves were swamping
And clasps were cracking and covers suppling!
As if you bad carried sour John Knox
To the play…house at Paris; Vienna or Munich;
Fastened him into a front…row box;
And danced off the ballet with trousers and tunic。
IX。
Come; old martyr! What; torment enough is it?
Back to my room shall you take your sweet self。
Good…bye; mother…beetle; husband…eft; _sufficit!_
See the snug niche I have made on my shelf!
A。's book shall prop you up; B。's shall cover you;
Here's C。 to be grave with; or D。 to be gay;
And with E。 on each side; and F。 right over you;
Dry…rot at ease till the Judgment…day!
SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER。
I。
Gr…r…r…there go; my heart's abhorrence!
Water your damned flower…pots; do!
If hate killed men; Brother Lawrence;
God's blood; would not mine kill you!
What? your myrtle…bush wants trimming?
Oh; that rose has prior claims…
Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?
Hell dry you up with its flames!
II。
At the meal we sit together:
_Salve tibi!_ I must hear
Wise talk of the kind of weather;
Sort of season; time of year:
_Not a plenteous cork…crop: scarcely
Dare we hope oak…galls; I doubt:
What's the Latin name for ‘‘parsley''?_
What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
III。
Whew! We'll have our platter burnished;
Laid with care on our own shelf!
With a fire…new spoon
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