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dramatic lyrics-第8部分
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XXVIII。
Margheritone of Arezzo;
With the grave…clothes garb and swaddling barret
(Why purse up mouth and beak in a pet so;
You bald old saturnine poll…clawed parrot?)
Not a poor glimmering Crucifixion;
Where in the foreground kneels the donor?
If such remain; as is my conviction;
The hoarding it does you but little honour。
XXIX。
They pass; for them the panels may thrill;
The tempera grow alive and tinglish;
Their pictures are left to the mercies still
Of dealers and stealers; Jews and the English;
Who; seeing mere money's worth in their prize;
Will sell it to somebody calm as Zeno
At naked High Art; and in ecstasies
Before some clay…cold vile Carlino!
XXX。
No matter for these! But Giotto; you;
Have you allowed; as the town…tongues babble it;…
Oh; never! it shall not be counted true…
That a certain precious little tablet
Which Buonarroti eyed like a lover;…
Was buried so long in oblivion's womb
And; left for another than I to discover;
Turns up at last! and to whom?…to whom?
XXXI。
I; that have haunted the dim San Spirito;
(Or was it rather the Ognissanti?)
Patient on altar…step planting a weary toe!
Nay; I shall have it yet! _Detur amanti!_
My Koh…i…noor…or (if that's a platitude)
Jewel of Giamschid; the Persian Sofi's eye
So; in anticipative gratitude;
What if I take up my hope and prophesy?
XXXII。
When the hour grows ripe; and a certain dotard
Is pitched; no parcel that needs invoicing;
To the worse side of the Mont Saint Gothard;
We shall begin by way of rejoicing;
None of that shooting the sky (blank cartridge);
Nor a civic guard; all plumes and lacquer;
Hunting Radetzky's soul like a partridge
Over Morello with squib and cracker。
XXXIII。
This time we'll shoot better game and bag 'em hot…
No mere display at the stone of Dante;
But a kind of sober Witanagemot
(Ex: ‘‘Casa Guidi;'' _quod videas ante_)
Shall ponder; once Freedom restored to Florence;
How Art may return that departed with her。
Go; hated house; go each trace of the Loraine's;
And bring us the days of Orgagna hither!
XXXIV。
How we shall prologize; how we shall perorate;
Utter fit things upon art and history;
Feel truth at blood…heat and falsehood at zero rate;
Make of the want of the age no mystery;
Contrast the fructuous and sterile eras;
Show…monarchy ever its uncouth cub licks
Out of the bear's shape into Chimra's;
While Pure Art's birth is still the republic's。
XXXV。
Then one shall propose in a speech (curt Tuscan;
Expurgate and sober; with scarcely an ‘‘_issimo;_'')
To end now our half…told tale of Cambuscan;
And turn the bell…tower's _alt_ to _altissimo_:
And fine as the beak of a young beccaccia
The Campanile; the Duomo's fit ally;
Shall soar up in gold full fifty braccia;
Completing Florence; as Florence Italy。
XXXVI。
Shall I be alive that morning the scaffold
Is broken away; and the long…pent fire;
Like the golden hope of the world; unbaffled
Springs from its sleep; and up goes the spire
While ‘‘God and the People'' plain for its motto;
Thence the new tricolour flaps at the sky?
At least to foresee that glory of Giotto
And Florence together; the first am I!
* 1 A sculptor; died 1278。
* 2 Died 1455。 Designed the bronze gates of the Baptistry at Florence。
* 3 A painter; died 1498。
* 4 The son of Fr Lippo Lippi。 Wronged; because some of his
* pictures have been attributed to others。
* 5 Died 1366。 One of Giotto's pupils and assistants。
* 6 Rough cast。
* 7 Painter; sculptor; and goldsmith。
* 8 Distemper…mixture of water and egg yolk。
* 9 Sculptor and architect; died 1313…
*10 All Saints。
*11 A Florentine painter; died 1576。
*12 Tartar king。
*13 A woodcock
‘‘DE GUSTIBUS…''
I。
Your ghost will walk; you lover of trees;
(If our loves remain)
In an English lane;
By a cornfield…side a…flutter with poppies。
Hark; those two in the hazel coppice…
A boy and a girl; if the good fates please;
Making love; say;…
The happier they!
Draw yourself up from the light of the moon;
And let them pass; as they will too soon;
With the bean…flowers' boon;
And the blackbird's tune;
And May; and June!
II。
What I love best in all the world
Is a castle; precipice…encurled;
In a gash of the wind…grieved Apennine
Or look for me; old fellow of mine;
(If I get my head from out the mouth
O' the grave; and loose my spirit's bands;
And come again to the land of lands)…
In a sea…side house to the farther South;
Where the baked cicala dies of drouth;
And one sharp tree…'tis a cypress…stands;
By the many hundred years red…rusted;
Rough iron…spiked; ripe fruit…o'ercrusted;
My sentinel to guard the sands
To the water's edge。 For; what expands
Before the house; but the great opaque
Blue breadth of sea without a break?
While; in the house; for ever crumbles
Some fragment of the frescoed walls;
From blisters where a scorpion sprawls。
A girl bare…footed brings; and tumbles
Down on the pavement; green…flesh melons;
And says there's news to…day…the king
Was shot at; touched in the liver…wing;
Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling:
…She hopes they have not caught the felons。
Italy; my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me…
(When fortune's malice
Lost her…Calais)…
Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it; ‘‘Italy。''
Such lovers old are I and she:
So it always was; so shall ever be!
HOME…THOUGHTS; FROM ABROAD。
I。
Oh; to be in England
Now that April's there;
And whoever wakes in England
Sees; some morning; unaware;
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm…tree bole are in tiny leaf;
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England…now!!
II。
And after April; when May follows;
And the whitethroat builds; and all the swallows!
Hark; where my blossomed pear…tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops…at the bent spray's edge…
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over;
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew;
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups; the little children's dower
…Far brighter than this gaudy melon…flower!
HOME…THOUGHTS; FROM THE SEA。
Nobly; nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North…west died away;
Sunset ran; one glorious blood…red; reeking into Cadiz Bay;
Bluish 'mid the burning water; full in face Trafalgar lay;
In the dimmest North…east distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray;
‘‘Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?''…say;
Whoso turns as I; this evening; turn to God to praise and pray;
While Jove's planet rises yonder; silent over Africa。
SAUL。
I。
Said Abner; ‘‘At last thou art come! Ere I tell; ere thou speak;
‘‘Kiss my cheek; wish me well!'' Then I wished it; and did kiss his cheek。
And he; ‘‘Since the King; O my friend; for thy countenance sent;
‘‘Neither drunken nor eaten have we; nor until from his tent
‘‘Thou return with the joyful assurance the King liveth yet;
‘‘Shall our lip with the honey be bright; with the water be wet。
‘‘For out of the black mid…tent's silence; a space of three days;
‘‘Not a sound hath escaped to thy servants; of prayer nor of praise;
‘‘To betoken that Saul and the Spirit have ended their strife;
‘‘And that; faint in his triumph; the monarch sinks back upon life。
II。
‘‘Yet now my heart leaps; O beloved! God's child with his dew
‘‘On thy gracious gold hair; and those lilies still living and blue
‘‘Just broken to twine round thy harp…strings; as if no wild beat
‘‘Were now raging to torture the desert!''
III。
Then I; as was meet;
Knelt down to the God of my fathers; and rose on my feet;
And ran o'er the sand burnt to powder。 The tent was unlooped;
I pulled up the spear that obstructed; and under I stooped
Hands and knees on the slippery grass…patch; all withered and gone;
That extends to the second enclosure; I groped my way on
Till I felt where the foldskirts fly open。 Then once more I prayed;
And opened the foldskirts and entered; and was not afraid
But spoke; ‘‘Here is David; thy servant!'' And no voice replied。
At the first I saw nought but the blackness but soon I descried
A something more black than the blackness…the vast; the upright
Main prop which sustains the pavilion: and slow into sight
Grew a figure against it; gigantic and blackest of all。
Then a sunbeam; that burst thro' the tent…roof; showed Saul。
IV。
He stood as erect as that tent…prop; both arms str
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