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endymion- a poetic romance-第2部分

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        And in his left he held a basket full

        Of all sweet herbs that searching eye could cull:

        Wild thyme; and valley…lillies whiter still

        Than Leda's love; and cresses from the rill。

        His aged head; crowned with beechen wreath;

        Seem'd like a poll of ivy in the teeth

        Of winter hoar。 Then came another crowd

        Of shepherds; lifting in due time aloud

        Their share of the ditty。 After them appear'd;

        Up…followed by a multitude that rear'd

        Their voices to the clouds; a fair wrought car;

        Easily rolling so as scarce to mar

        The freedom of three steeds of dapple brown:

        Who stood therein did seem of great renown

        Among the throng。 His youth was fully blown;

        Showing like Ganymede to manhood grown;

        And; for those simple times; his garments were

        A chieftain king's: beneath his breast; half bare;

        Was hung a silver bugle; and between

        His nervy knees there lay a boar…spear keen。

        A smile was on his countenance; he seem'd;

        To common lookers on; like one who dream'd

        Of idleness in groves Elysian:

        But there were some who feelingly could scan

        A lurking trouble in his nether lip;

        And see that oftentimes the reins would slip

        Through his forgotten hands: then would they sigh;

        And think of yellow leaves; of owlets' cry;

        Of logs piled solemnly。… Ah; well…a…day;

        Why should our young Endymion pine away!



          Soon the assembly; in a circle rang'd;

        Stood silent round the shrine: each look was chang'd

        To sudden veneration: women meek

        Beckon'd their sons to silence; while each cheek

        Of virgin bloom paled gently for slight fear。

        Endymion too; without a forest peer;

        Stood; wan; and pale; and with an awed face;

        Among his brothers of the mountain chace。

        In midst of all; the venerable priest

        Eyed them with joy from greatest to the least;

        And; after lifting up his aged hands;

        Thus spake he: 〃Men of Latmos! shepherd bands!

        Whose care it is to guard a thousand flocks:

        Whether descended from beneath the rocks

        That overtop your mountains; whether come

        From vallies where the pipe is never dumb;

        Or from your swelling downs; where sweet air stirs

        Blue hare…bells lightly; and where prickly furze

        Buds lavish gold; or ye; whose precious charge

        Nibble their fill at ocean's very marge;

        Whose mellow reeds are touch'd with sounds forlorn

        By the dim echoes of old Triton's horn:

        Mothers and wives! who day by day prepare

        The scrip; with needments; for the mountain air;

        And all ye gentle girls who foster up

        Udderless lambs; and in a little cup

        Will put choice honey for a favoured youth:

        Yea; every one attend! for in good truth

        Our vows are wanting to our great god Pan。

        Are not our lowing heifers sleeker than

        Night…swollen mushrooms? Are not our wide plains

        Speckled with countless fleeces? Have not rains

        Green'd over April's lap? No howling sad

        Sickens our fearful ewes; and we have had

        Great bounty from Endymion our lord。

        The earth is glad: the merry lark has pour'd

        His early song against yon breezy sky;

        That spreads so clear o'er our solemnity。〃



          Thus ending; on the shrine he heap'd a spire

        Of teeming sweets; enkindling sacred fire;

        Anon he stain'd the thick and spongy sod

        With wine; in honour of the shepherd…god。

        Now while the earth was drinking it; and while

        Bay leaves were crackling in the fragrant pile;

        And gummy frankincense was sparkling bright

        'Neath smothering parsley; and a hazy light

        Spread greyly eastward; thus a chorus sang:



          〃O thou; whose mighty palace roof doth hang

        From jagged trunks; and overshadoweth

        Eternal whispers; glooms; the birth; life; death

        Of unseen flowers in heavy peacefulness;

        Who lov'st to see the hamadryads dress

        Their ruffled locks where meeting hazels darken;

        And through whole solemn hours dost sit; and hearken

        The dreary melody of bedded reeds…

        In desolate places; where dank moisture breeds

        The pipy hemlock to strange overgrowth;

        Bethinking thee; how melancholy loth

        Thou wast to lose fair Syrinx… do thou now;

        By thy love's milky brow!

        By all the trembling mazes that she ran;

        Hear us; great Pan!



          〃O thou; for whose soul…soothing quiet; turtles

        Passion their voices cooingly 'mong myrtles;

        What time thou wanderest at eventide

        Through sunny meadows; that outskirt the side

        Of thine enmossed realms: O thou; to whom

        Broad leaved fig trees even now foredoom

        Their ripen'd fruitage; yellow girted bees

        Their golden honeycombs; our village leas

        Their fairest blossom'd beans and poppied corn;

        The chuckling linnet its five young unborn;

        To sing for thee; low creeping strawberries

        Their summer coolness; pent up butterflies

        Their freckled wings; yea; the fresh budding year

        All its completions… be quickly near;

        By every wind that nods the mountain pine;

        O forester divine!



          〃Thou; to whom every faun and satyr flies

        For willing service; whether to surprise

        The squatted hare while in half sleeping fit;

        Or upward ragged precipices flit

        To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw;

        Or by mysterious enticement draw

        Bewildered shepherds to their path again;

        Or to tread breathless round the frothy main;

        And gather up all fancifullest shells

        For thee to tumble into Naiads' cells;

        And; being hidden; laugh at their out…peeping;

        Or to delight thee with fantastic leaping;

        The while they pelt each other on the crown

        With silvery oak apples; and fir cones brown…

        By all the echoes that about thee ring;

        Hear us; O satyr king!



          〃O Hearkener to the loud clapping shears

        While ever and anon to his shorn peers

        A ram goes bleating: Winder of the horn;

        When snouted wild…boars routing tender corn

        Anger our huntsmen: Breather round our farms;

        To keep off mildews; and all weather harms:

        Strange ministrant of undescribed sounds;

        That come a swooning over hollow grounds;

        And wither drearily on barren moors:

        Dread opener of the mysterious doors

        Leading to universal knowledge… see;

        Great son of Dryope;

        The many that are come to pay their vows

        With leaves about their brows!



          〃Be still the unimaginable lodge

        For solitary thinkings; such as dodge

        Conception to the very bourne of heaven;

        Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven;

        That spreading in this dull and clodded earth

        Gives it a touch ethereal… a new birth:

        Be still a symbol of immensity;

        A firmament reflected in a sea;

        An element filling the space between;

        An unknown… but no more: we humbly screen

        With uplift hands our foreheads; lowly bending;

        And giving out a shout most heaven rending;

        Conjure thee to receive our humble Paean;

        Upon thy Mount Lycean!〃



          Even while they brought the burden to a close;

        A shout from the whole multitude arose;

        That lingered in the air like dying rolls

        Of abrupt thunder; when Ionian shoals

        Of dolphins bob their noses through the brine。

        Meantime; on shady levels; mossy fine;

        Young companies nimbly began dancing

        To the swift treble pipe; and humming string。

        Aye; those fair living forms swam heavenly

        To tunes forgotten… out of memory:

        Fair creatures! whose young children's children bred

        Thermopylae its heroes… not yet dead;

        But in old marbles ever beautiful。

        High genitors; unconscious did they cull

        Time's sweet first…fruits… they danc'd to weariness;

        And then in quiet circles did they press

        The hillock turf; and caught the latter end

        Of some strange history; potent to send

        A young mind from its bodily tenement。

        Or they might watch the quoit…pitchers; intent

        On either side; pitying the sad death

        Of Hyacinthus; when the cruel breath

        Of Zephyr slew him;… Zephyr penitent;

        Who now; ere Phoebus mounts the firmament;

        Fondles the flower amid the sobbing rain。

        The archers too; upon a wider plain;

        Beside the feathery whizzing of the shaft;

        And the dull twanging bowstring; and the raft

        Branch down sweeping from a tall ash top;

        Call'd up a thousand thoughts to envelope

        Those who would watch。 Perhaps; the trembling knee

        And frantic gape of lonely Niobe;

        Poor; lonely Niobe! when her lovely young

        Were dead and gone; and her caressing tongue

        Lay a lost thing upon her paly lip;

        And very; very deadliness did nip

        Her motherly cheeks。 Arous'd from this sad mood

        By one; who at a distance loud halloo'd;

        Uplifting his strong bow into the air;

        Many might after brighter visions stare:

        After the Argonauts; in blind amaze

        Tossing about on Neptune's restless ways;

        Until; from the horizon's vaulted side;

        There shot a golden splendour far and wide;

        Spangling those million poutings of the brine

        With quivering ore: 'twas even an awful shine

        From the exaltation of Apollo's bow;

        A heavenl
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