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life is a dream-第2部分

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ROS。

Well; we must follow him as best we may。

Poland is no great country; and; as rich

In men and means; will but few acres spare

To lie beneath her barrier mountains bare。

We cannot; I believe; be very far

From mankind or their dwellings。



FIFE。

Send it so!

And well provided for man; woman; and beast。

No; not for beast。 Ah; but my heart begins

To yearn for her



ROS。

Keep close; and keep your feet

From serving you as hers did。



FIFE。

As for beasts;

If in default of other entertainment;

We should provide them with ourselves to eat

Bears; lions; wolves



ROS。

Oh; never fear。



FIFE。

Or else;

Default of other beasts; beastlier men;

Cannibals; Anthropophagi; bare Poles

Who never knew a tailor but by taste。



ROS。

Look; look! Unless my fancy misconceive

With twilightdown among the rocks there; Fife

Some human dwelling; surely

Or think you but a rock torn from the rocks

In some convulsion like to…day's; and perch'd

Quaintly among them in mock…masonry?



FIFE。

Most likely that; I doubt。



ROS。

No; nofor look!

A square of darkness opening in it



FIFE。

Oh; I don't half like such openings!



ROS。

Like the loom

Of night from which she spins her outer gloom



FIFE。

Lord; Madam; pray forbear this tragic vein

In such a time and place



ROS。

And now again

Within that square of darkness; look! a light

That feels its way with hesitating pulse;

As we do; through the darkness that it drives

To blacken into deeper night beyond。



FIFE。

In which could we follow that light's example;

As might some English Bardolph with his nose;

We might defy the sunsetHark; a chain!



ROS。

And now a lamp; a lamp! And now the hand

That carries it。



FIFE。

Oh; Lord! that dreadful chain!



ROS。

And now the bearer of the lamp; indeed

As strange as any in Arabian tale;

So giant…like; and terrible; and grand;

Spite of the skin he's wrapt in。



FIFE。

Why; 'tis his own:

Oh; 'tis some wild man of the woods; I've heard

They build and carry torches



ROS。

Never Ape

Bore such a brow before the heavens as that

Chain'd as you say too!



FIFE。

Oh; that dreadful chain!



ROS。

And now he sets the lamp down by his side;

And with one hand clench'd in his tangled hair

And with a sigh as if his heart would break



(During this Segismund has entered from the fortress; with a torch。)



SEGISMUND。

Once more the storm has roar'd itself away;

Splitting the crags of God as it retires;

But sparing still what it should only blast;

This guilty piece of human handiwork;

And all that are within it。 Oh; how oft;

How oft; within or here abroad; have I

Waited; and in the whisper of my heart

Pray'd for the slanting hand of heaven to strike

The blow myself I dared not; out of fear

Of that Hereafter; worse; they say; than here;

Plunged headlong in; but; till dismissal waited;

To wipe at last all sorrow from men's eyes;

And make this heavy dispensation clear。

Thus have I borne till now; and still endure;

Crouching in sullen impotence day by day;

Till some such out…burst of the elements

Like this rouses the sleeping fire within;

And standing thus upon the threshold of

Another night about to close the door

Upon one wretched day to open it

On one yet wretcheder because one more;

Once more; you savage heavens; I ask of you

I; looking up to those relentless eyes

That; now the greater lamp is gone below;

Begin to muster in the listening skies;

In all the shining circuits you have gone

About this theatre of human woe;

What greater sorrow have you gazed upon

Than down this narrow chink you witness still;

And which; did you yourselves not fore…devise;

You registered for others to fulfil!



FIFE。

This is some Laureate at a birthday ode;

No wonder we went rhyming。



ROS。

Hush! And now

See; starting to his feet; he strides about

Far as his tether'd steps



SEG。

And if the chain

You help'd to rivet round me did contract

Since guiltless infancy from guilt in act;

Of what in aspiration or in thought

Guilty; but in resentment of the wrong

That wreaks revenge on wrong I never wrought

By excommunication from the free

Inheritance that all created life;

Beside myself; is born tofrom the wings

That range your own immeasurable blue;

Down to the poor; mute; scale…imprison'd things;

That yet are free to wander; glide; and pass

About that under…sapphire; whereinto

Yourselves transfusing you yourselves englass!



ROS。

What mystery is this?



FIFE。

Why; the man's mad:

That's all the mystery。 That's why he's chain'd

And why



SEG。

Nor Nature's guiltless life alone

But that which lives on blood and rapine; nay;

Charter'd with larger liberty to slay

Their guiltless kind; the tyrants of the air

Soar zenith…upward with their screaming prey;

Making pure heaven drop blood upon the stage

Of under earth; where lion; wolf; and bear;

And they that on their treacherous velvet wear

Figure and constellation like your own;

With their still living slaughter bound away

Over the barriers of the mountain cage;

Against which one; blood…guiltless; and endued

With aspiration and with aptitude

Transcending other creatures; day by day

Beats himself mad with unavailing rage!



FIFE。

Why; that must be the meaning of my mule's

Rebellion



ROS。

Hush!



SEG。

But then if murder be

The law by which not only conscience…blind

Creatures; but man too prospers with his kind;

Who leaving all his guilty fellows free;

Under your fatal auspice and divine

Compulsion; leagued in some mysterious ban

Against one innocent and helpless man;

Abuse their liberty to murder mine:

And sworn to silence; like their masters mute

In heaven; and like them twirling through the mask

Of darkness; answering to all I ask;

Point up to them whose work they execute!



ROS。

Ev'n as I thought; some poor unhappy wretch;

By man wrong'd; wretched; unrevenged; as I!

Nay; so much worse than I; as by those chains

Clipt of the means of self…revenge on those

Who lay on him what they deserve。 And I;

Who taunted Heaven a little while ago

With pouring all its wrath upon my head

Alas! like him who caught the cast…off husk

Of what another bragg'd of feeding on;

Here's one that from the refuse of my sorrows

Could gather all the banquet he desires!

Poor soul; poor soul!



FIFE。

Speak lowerhe will hear you。



ROS。

And if he should; what then? Why; if he would;

He could not harm meNay; and if he could;

Methinks I'd venture something of a life

I care so little for



SEG。

Who's that? Clotaldo? Who are you; I say;

That; venturing in these forbidden rocks;

Have lighted on my miserable life;

And your own death?



ROS。

You would not hurt me; surely?



SEG。

Not I; but those that; iron as the chain

In which they slay me with a lingering death;

Will slay you with a suddenWho are you?



ROS。

A stranger from across the mountain there;

Who; having lost his way in this strange land

And coming night; drew hither to what seem'd

A human dwelling hidden in these rocks;

And where the voice of human sorrow soon

Told him it was so。



SEG。

Ay? But nearernearer

That by this smoky supplement of day

But for a moment I may see who speaks

So pitifully sweet。



FIFE。

Take care! take care!



ROS。

Alas; poor man; that I; myself so helpless;

Could better help you than by barren pity;

And my poor presence



SEG。

Oh; might that be all!

But thata few poor momentsand; alas!

The very bliss of having; and the dread

Of losing; under such a penalty

As every moment's having runs more near;

Stifles the very utterance and resource

They cry for quickest; till from sheer despair

Of holding thee; methinks myself would tear

To pieces



FIFE。

There; his word's enough for it。



SEG。

Oh; think; if you who move about at will;

And live in sweet communion with your kind;

After an hour lost in these lonely rocks

Hunger and thirst after some human voice

To drink; and human face to feed upon;

What must one do where all is mute; or harsh;

And ev'n the naked face of cruelty

Were better than the mask it works beneath?

Across the mountain then! Across the mountain!

What if the next world which they tell one of

Be only next across the mountain then;

Though I must never see it till I die;

And you one of its angels?



ROS。

Alas; alas!

No angel! And the face you think so fair;

'Tis but the dismal frame…work of these rocks

That makes it seem so; and the world I come from

Alas; alas; too many faces there

Are but fair vizors to black hearts below;

Or only serve to bring the wearer woe!

But to yourselfIf haply the redress

That I am here upon may help to yours。

I heard you tax the heavens with ordering;

And men for executing; what; alas!

I now behold。 But why; and who they are

Who do; and you who suffer



SEG。 (pointing upwards)。

Ask of them;

Whom; as to…night; I have so often ask'd;

And ask'd in vain。



ROS。

But surely; surely



SEG。

Hark!

The trumpet of the watch to shut us in。

Oh; should they find you!Quick! Behind the rocks!

To…morrowif to…morrow



ROS。 (flinging her sword toward him)。

Take my sword!



(Rosaura and Fife hide in the rocks; Enter Clotaldo)



CLOTALDO。

These stormy days you like to see the last of

Are but ill opiates; Segismund; I think;

For night to follow: and to…night you seem

More than your wont disorder'd。 What! A sword?

Within there!



(Enter Soldiers with black vizors and torches)



FIFE。

Here's a pleasant masquerade!



CLO。

Whosever watch this was

Will have to pay head…reckoning。 Meanwhile;

This weapon had a wearer。 Bring him here;

Alive or dead。



SEG。

Clotaldo! good Clotaldo!


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