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endymion- a poetic romance-第7部分

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        Lay; half asleep; in grass and rushes cool;

        Quick waterflies and gnats were sporting still;

        And fish were dimpling; as if good nor ill

        Had fallen out that hour。 The wanderer;

        Holding his forehead; to keep off the bur

        Of smothering fancies; patiently sat down;

        And; while beneath the evening's sleepy frown

        Glow…worms began to trim their starry lamps;

        Thus breath'd he to himself: 〃Whoso encamps

        To take a fancied city of delight;

        O what a wretch is he! and when 'tis his;

        After long toil and travelling; to miss

        The kernel of his hopes; how more than vile:

        Yet; for him there's refreshment even in toil;

        Another city doth he set about;

        Free from the smallest pebble…head of doubt

        That he will seize on trickling honey…combs;

        Alas; he finds them dry; and then he foams;

        And onward to another city speeds。

        But this is human life: the war; the deeds;

        The disappointment; the anxiety;

        Imagination's struggles; far and nigh;

        All human; bearing in themselves this good;

        That they are still the air; the subtle food;

        To make us feel existence; and to show

        How quiet death is。 Where soil is men grow;

        Whether to weeds or flowers; but for me;

        There is no depth to strike in: I can see

        Naught earthly worth my compassing; so stand

        Upon a misty; jutting head of land…

        Alone? No; no; and by the Orphean lute;

        When mad Eurydice is listening to't;

        I'd rather stand upon this misty peak;

        With not a thing to sigh for; or to seek;

        But the soft shadow of my thrice…seen love;

        Than be… I care not what。 O meekest dove

        Of heaven! O Cynthia; ten…times bright and fair!

        From thy blue throne; now filling all the air;

        Glance but one little beam of temper'd light

        Into my bosom; that the dreadful might

        And tyranny of love be somewhat scar'd!

        Yet do not so; sweet queen; one torment spar'd;

        Would give a pang to jealous misery;

        Worse than the torment's self: but rather tie

        Large wings upon my shoulders; and point out

        My love's far dwelling。 Though the playful rout

        Of Cupids shun thee; too divine art thou;

        Too keen in beauty; for thy silver prow

        Not to have dipp'd in love's most gentle stream。

        O be propitious; nor severely deem

        My madness impious; for; by all the stars

        That tend thy bidding; I do think the bars

        That kept my spirit in are burst… that I

        Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!

        How beautiful thou art! The world how deep!

        How tremulous…dazzlingly the wheels sweep

        Around their axle! Then these gleaming reins;

        How lithe! When this thy chariot attains

        Its airy goal; haply some bower veils

        Those twilight eyes? Those eyes!… my spirit fails…

        Dear goddess; help! or the wide…gaping air

        Will gulph me… help!〃… At this with madden'd stare;

        And lifted hands; and trembling lips he stood;

        Like old Deucalion mountain'd o'er the flood;

        Or blind Orion hungry for the morn。

        And; but from the deep cavern there was borne

        A voice; he had been froze to senseless stone;

        Nor sigh of his; nor plaint; nor passion'd moan

        Had more been heard。 Thus swell'd it forth: 〃Descend;

        Young mountaineer! descend where alleys bend

        Into the sparry hollows of the world!

        Oft hast thou seen bolts of the thunder hurl'd

        As from thy threshold; day by day hast been

        A little lower than the chilly sheen

        Of icy pinnacles; and dipp'dst thine arms

        Into the deadening ether that still charms

        Their marble being: now; as deep profound

        As those are high; descend! He ne'er is crown'd

        With immortality; who fears to follow

        Where airy voices lead: so through the hollow;

        The silent mysteries of earth; descend!〃



          He heard but the last words; nor could contend

        One moment in reflection: for he fled

        Into the fearful deep; to hide his head

        From the clear moon; the trees; and coming madness。



          'Twas far too strange; and wonderful for sadness;

        Sharpening; by degrees; his appetite

        To dive into the deepest。 Dark; nor light;

        The region; nor bright; nor sombre wholly;

        But mingled up; a gleaming melancholy;

        A dusky empire and its diadems;

        One faint eternal eventide of gems。

        Aye; millions sparkled on a vein of gold;

        Along whose track the prince quick footsteps told;

        With all its lines abrupt and angular:

        Out…shooting sometimes; like a meteor…star;

        Through a vast antre; then the metal woof;

        Like Vulcan's rainbow; with some monstrous roof

        Curves hugely: now; far in the deep abyss;

        It seems an angry lightning; and doth hiss

        Fancy into belief: anon it leads

        Through winding passages; where sameness breeds

        Vexing conceptions of some sudden change;

        Whether to silver grots; or giant range

        Of sapphire columns; or fantastic bridge

        Athwart a flood of crystal。 On a ridge

        Now fareth he; that o'er the vast beneath

        Towers like an ocean…cliff; and whence he seeth

        A hundred waterfalls; whose voices come

        But as the murmuring surge。 Chilly and numb

        His bosom grew; when first he; far away

        Descried an orbed diamond; set to fray

        Old darkness from his throne: 'twas like the sun

        Uprisen o'er chaos: and with such a stun

        Came the amazement; that; absorb'd in it;

        He saw not fiercer wonders… past the wit

        Of any spirit to tell; but one of those

        Who; when this planet's sphering time doth close;

        Will be its high remembrancers: who they?

        The mighty ones who have made eternal day

        For Greece and England。 While astonishment

        With deep…drawn sighs was quieting; he went

        Into a marble gallery; passing through

        A mimic temple; so complete and true

        In sacred custom; that he well nigh fear'd

        To search it inwards; whence far off appear'd;

        Through a long pillar'd vista; a fair shrine;

        And just beyond; on light tiptoe divine;

        A quiver'd Dian。 Stepping awfully;

        The youth approach'd; oft turning his veil'd eye

        Down sidelong aisles; and into niches old。

        And when; more near against the marble cold

        He had touch'd his forehead; he began to thread

        All courts and passages; where silence dead

        Rous'd by his whispering footsteps murmured faint:

        And long he travers'd to and fro; to acquaint

        Himself with every mystery; and awe;

        Till; weary; he sat down before the maw

        Of a wide outlet; fathomless and dim;

        To wild uncertainty and shadows grim。

        There; when new wonders ceas'd to float before;

        And thoughts of self came on; how crude and sore

        The journey homeward to habitual self

        A mad…pursuing of the fog…born elf;

        Whose flitting lantern; through rude nettle…briar;

        Cheats us into a swamp; into a fire;

        Into the bosom of a hated thing。



          What misery most drowningly doth sing

        In lone Endymion's ear; now he has raught

        The goal of consciousness? Ah; 'tis the thought;

        The deadly feel of solitude: for lo!

        He cannot see the heavens; nor the flow

        Of rivers; nor hill…flowers running wild

        In pink and purple chequer; nor; up…pil'd;

        The cloudy rack slow journeying in the west;

        Like herded elephants; nor felt; nor prest

        Cool grass; nor tasted the fresh slumberous air;

        But far from such companionship to wear

        An unknown time; surcharg'd with grief; away;

        Was now his lot。 And must he patient stay;

        Tracing fantastic figures with his spear?

       〃No!〃 exclaim'd he; 〃why should I tarry here?〃

        No! loudly echoed times innumerable。

        At which he straightway started; and 'gan tell

        His paces back into the temple's chief;

        Warming and glowing strong in the belief

        Of help from Dian: so that when again

        He caught her airy form; thus did he plain;

        Moving more near the while: 〃O Haunter chaste

        Of river sides; and woods; and heathy waste;

        Where with thy silver bow and arrows keen

        Art thou now forested? O woodland Queen;

        What smoothest air thy smoother forehead woos?

        Where dost thou listen to the wide halloos

        Of thy disparted nymphs? Through what dark tree

        Glimmers thy crescent? Wheresoe'er it be;

        'Tis in the breath of heaven: thou dost taste

        Freedom as none can taste it; nor dost waste

        Thy loveliness in dismal elements;

        But; finding in our green earth sweet contents;

        There livest blissfully。 Ah; if to thee

        It feels Elysian; how rich to me;

        An exil'd mortal; sounds its pleasant name!

        Within my breast there lives a choking flame…

        O let me cool't the zephyr…boughs among!

        A homeward fever parches up my tongue…

        O let me slake it at the running springs!

        Upon my ear a noisy nothing rings…

        O let me once more hear the linnet's note!

        Before mine eyes thick films and shadows float…

        O let me 'noint them with the heaven's light!

        Dost thou now lave thy feet and ankles white?

        O think how sweet to me the freshening sluice!

        Dost thou now please thy thirst with berry…juice?

        O think how this dry palate would rejoice!

        If in soft slumber thou dost hear
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