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helen of troy and other poems-第7部分

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 Abloom by sacred streams

Beneath the temple arches

 Where Quiet sits and dreams。



Her kisses are the roses

 That glow while dusk is deep

In Persian garden closes

 Where Quiet falls asleep。









   A Minuet of Mozart's







Across the dimly lighted room

 The violin drew wefts of sound;

 Airily they wove and wound

And glimmered gold against the gloom。



I watched the music turn to light;

 But at the pausing of the bow;

 The web was broken and the glow

Was drowned within the wave of night。









   Twilight







Dreamily over the roofs

 The cold spring rain is falling;

Out in the lonely tree

 A bird is calling; calling。



Slowly over the earth

 The wings of night are falling;

My heart like the bird in the tree

 Is calling; calling; calling。









   The Prayer







My answered prayer came up to me;

 And in the silence thus spake he:

〃O you who prayed for me to come;

 Your greeting is but cold and dumb。〃



My heart made answer:  〃You are fair;

 But I have prayed too long to care。

Why came you not when all was new;

 And I had died for joy of you。〃









   Two Songs for a Child







  I

        Grandfather's Love



They said he sent his love to me;

 They wouldn't put it in my hand;

And when I asked them where it was

 They said I couldn't understand。



I thought they must have hidden it;

 I hunted for it all the day;

And when I told them so at night

 They smiled and turned their heads away。



They say that love is something kind;

 That I can never see or touch。

I wish he'd sent me something else;

 I like his cough…drops twice as much。





  II

        The Kind Moon



I think the moon is very kind

 To take such trouble just for me。

He came along with me from home

 To keep me company。



He went as fast as I could run;

 I wonder how he crossed the sky?

I'm sure he hasn't legs and feet

 Or any wings to fly。



Yet here he is above their roof;

 Perhaps he thinks it isn't right

For me to go so far alone;

 Tho' mother said I might。













On the Tower













     Under the leaf of many a Fable lies the Truth for those who look for it。

                                                            Jami。













On the Tower



(A play in one act。)







The Knight。

The Lady。



Voices of men and women on the ground at the foot of the tower。

The voice of the Knight's Page。







     The top of a high battlemented tower of a castle。  A stone ledge;

     which serves as a seat; extends part way around the parapet。

     Small clouds float by in the blue sky; and occasionally a swallow passes。

     Entrance R。 from an unseen stairway which is supposed to extend around

     the outside of the tower。





The Lady (unseen)。


 Oh do not climb so fast; for I am faint

 With looking down the tower to where the earth

 Lies dreaming in the sun。  I fear to fall。



The Knight (unseen)。

 Lean on me; love; my love; and look not down。



L。

 Call me not 〃love〃; call me your conquered foe;

 That now; since you have battered down her gates;

 Gives you the keys that lock the highest tower

 And mounts with you to prove her homage true;

 Oh bid me go no farther lest I fall;

 My foot has slipped upon the rain…worn stones;

 Why are the stairs so narrow and so steep?

 Let us go back; my lord。



K。

                           Are you afraid;

 Who were so dauntless till the walls gave way?

 Courage; my sweet。  I would that I could climb

 A thousand times by wind…swept stairs like these;

 That lead so near to heaven。



L。

                              Sir; you may;

 You are a knight and very valorous;

 I am a woman。  I shall never come

 This way but once。

 (The Knight and the Lady appear on the top of the tower。)



K。

                     Kiss me at last; my love。



L。

 Oh; my sweet lord; I am too tired to kiss。

 Look how the earth is like an emerald;

 With rivers veined and flawed with fallow fields。



K。  (Lifting her veil)

 Then I kiss you; a thousand thousand kisses

 For all the days ere I had won to you

 Beyond the walls and gates you barred so close。

 Call me at last your love; your castle's lord。



L。  (After a pause)

 I love you。



 (She kisses him。  Her veil blows away like a white butterfly

 over the parapet。  Faint cries and laughter from men and women

 under the tower。)



Men and Women。

 The veil; the lady's veil!



 (The knight takes the lady in his arms。)



L。

 My lord; I pray you loose me from your arms

 Lest that my people see how much we love。



K。

 May they not see us?  All of them have loved。



L。

 But you have been an enemy; my lord;

 With walls between us and with moss…grown moats;

 Now on a sudden must I kiss your mouth?

 I who was taught before I learned to speak

 That all my house was hostile unto yours;

 Now can I put my head against your breast

 Here in the sight of all who choose to come?



K。

 Are we not past the caring for their eyes

 And nearer to the heaven than to earth?

 Look up and see。



L。

                   I only see your face。



 (She touches his hair with her hands。  Murmuring under the tower。)



K。

 Why came we here in all the noon…day light

 With only darting swallows over us

 To make a speck of darkness on the sun?

 Let us go down where walls will shut us round。

 Your castle has a hundred quiet halls;

 A hundred chambers; where the shadows lie

 On things put by; forgotten long ago。

 Forgotten lutes with strings that Time has slackened;

 We two shall draw them close and bid them sing 

 Forgotten games; forgotten books still open

 Where you had laid them by at vesper…time;

 And your embroidery; whereon half…worked

 Weeps Amor wounded by a rose's thorn。

 Shall I not see the room in which you slept;

 Palpitant still and breathing of your thoughts;

 Where maiden dreams adown the ways of sleep

 Swept noiselessly with damosels and knights

 To tourneys where the trumpet made no sound;

 Blow as he might; the scarlet trumpeter;

 And were the dreams not sometimes brimmed with tears

 That waked you when the night was loneliest?

 Will you not bring me to your oratory

 Where prayers arose like little birds set free

 Still upward; upward without sound of flight?

 Shall I not find your turrets toward the north;

 Where you defied white winter armed for war;

 Your southern casements where the sun blows in

 Between the leaf…bent boughs the wind has lifted?

 Shall we not see the sunrise toward the east;

 Watch dawn by dawn the rose of day unfolding

 Its golden…hearted beauty sovereignly;

 And toward the west look quietly at evening?

 Shall I not see all these and all your treasures?

 In carven coffers hidden in the dark

 Have you not laid a sapphire lit with flame

 And amethysts set round with deep…wrought gold;

 Perhaps a ruby?



L。

                  All my gems are yours

 And all my chambers curtained from the sun。

 My lord shall see them all; in time; in time。





 (The sun begins to sink。)



K。

 Shall I not see them now?  To…day; to…night?



L。

 How could I show you in one day; my lord;

 My castle and my treasures and my tower?

 Let all the days to come suffice for this

 Since all the past days made them what they are。

 You will not be impatient; my sweet lord。

 Some of the halls have long been locked and barred;

 And some have secret doors and hard to find

 Till suddenly you touch them unawares;

 And down a sable way runs silver light。

 We two will search together for the keys;

 But not to…day。  Let us sit here to…day;

 Since all is yours and always will be yours。



 (The stars appear faintly one by one。)



K。  (After a pause。)

 I grow a little drowsy with the dusk。



L。  (Singing。)

    There was a man that loved a maid;

    (Sleep and take your rest)

    Over her lips his kiss was laid;

    Over her heart; his breast。



 (The knight sleeps。)



    All of his vows were sweet to hear;

    Sweet was his kiss to take;

    Why was her breast so quick to fear;

    Why was her heart; to break?



    Why was the man so glad to woo?

    (Sleep and take your rest)

    Why were the maiden's words so few 



 (She sees that he is asleep; and slipping off her long cloak…like

 outer garment; she pillows his head upon it against the parapet;

 and half kneeling at his feet she sings very softly:)



    I love you; I love you; I love you;

    I am the flower at your feet;

    The birds and the stars are above you;

    My place is more sweet。



    The birds and the stars are above you;

    They envy the flower in the grass;

    For I; only I; while I love you

    Can die as you pass。



 (Light clouds veil the stars; growing denser constantly。

 The castle bell rings for vespers; and rising; the lady moves

 to a corner of the parapet and kneels there。)



L。

 Ave Maria! gratia plena; Dominus 



Voice of the Page (from the foot of the tower。)

 My lord; my lord; they call for you at court!



 (The knight wakes。  It is now quite dark。)



 There is a tourney toward; your enemy

 Has challenged you。  My lord; make haste to come!



 (The knight rises and gropes his way toward the stairs。)



K。

 I will make haste。  Await me where you are。



 (To himself。)

 There was a lady on this tower with me 



 (He glances around hurriedly but does not see her in the darkness。)



Page。

 My lord has far to ride before the dawn!



K。  (To himself。)

 Why should I tarry?



 (To the page。)

 Bring my horse and shield!



 (He descends。  As the noise of his footfall on the stairs dies away;

 the lady gropes toward the sta
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