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a reading of life-第7部分

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A sea; nor stays that sea the bastioned beach。

Now must the brother soul alive in each;

His traitorous individual devildom

Hold subject lest the grand destruction come。

Dimly men see it menacing apace

To overthrow; perchance uproot the race。

Within; without; they are a field of tares:

Fruitfuller for them when the contest squares;

And wherefore warrior service they must yield;

Shines visible as life on either field。

That is my comfort; following shock on shock;

Which sets faith quaking on their firmest rock。

Since with his weapons; all the arms of Night;

Frail men have challenged Lucifer to fight;

Have matched in hostile ranks; enrolled; erect;

The human and Satanic intellect;

Determined for their uses to control

What forces on the earth and under roll;

Their granite rock runs igneous; now they stand

Pledged to the heavens for safety of their land。

They cannot learn save grossly; gross that are:

Through fear they learn whose aid is good in war。



… My sister; as I read them in my glass;

Their field of tares they take for pasture grass。

How waken them that have not any bent

Save browsing … the concrete indifferent!

Friend Lucifer supplies them solid stuff:

They fear not for the race when full the trough。

They have much fear of giving up the ghost;

And these are of mankind the unnumbered host。



… If I could see with you; and did not faint

In beating wing; the future I would paint。

Those massed indifferents will learn to quake:

Now meanwhile is another mass awake;

Once denser than the grunters of the sty。

If I could see with you!  Could I but fly!



… The length of days that you with them have housed;

An outcast else; approves their cause espoused。



… O true; they have a cause; and woe for us;

While still they have a cause too piteous!

Yet; happy for us when; their cause defined;

They walk no longer with a stumbler blind;

And quicken in the virtue of their cause;

To think me a poor mouther of old saws!

I wait the issue of a battling Age;

The toilers with your 〃troughsters〃 now engage;

Instructing them through their acutest sense;

How close the dangers of indifference!

Already have my people shown their worth;

More love they light; which folds the love of Earth。

That love to love of labour leads:  thence love

Of humankind … earth's incense flung above。



… Admit some other features:  Faithless; mean;

Encased in matter; vowed to Gods obscene;

Contemptuous of the impalpable; it swells

On Doubt; for pastime swallows miracles;

And if I bid it face what I observe;

Declares me hoodwinked by my optic nerve!



… Oft has your prophet; for reward of toil;

Seen nests of seeming cockatrices coil:

Disowned them as the unholiest of Time;

Which were his offspring; born of flame on slime。

Nor him; their sire; have known the filial fry:

As little as Time's earliest knew the sky。

Perchance among them shoots a lustrous flame

At intervals; in proof of whom they came。

To strengthen our foundations is the task

Of this tough Age; not in your beams to bask;

Though; lighted by your beams; down mining caves

The rock it blasts; the hoarded foulness braves。

My sister sees no round beyond her mood;

To hawk this Age has dressed her head in hood。

Out of the course of ancient ruts and grooves;

It moves:  O much for me to say it moves!

About his AEthiop Highlands Nile is Nile;

Though not the stream of the paternal smile:

And where his tide of nourishment he drives;

An Abyssinian wantonness revives。

Calm as his lotus…leaf to…day he swims;

He is the yellow crops; the rounded limbs;

The Past yet flowing; the fair time that fills;

Breath of all mouths and grist of many mills。



To…morrow; warning none with tempest…showers;

He is the vast Insensate who devours

His golden promise over leagues of seed;

Then sits in a smooth lake upon the deed。

The races which on barbarous force begin;

Inherit onward of their origin;

And cancelled blessings will the current length

Reveal till they know need of shaping strength。

'Tis not in men to recognize the need

Before they clash in hosts; in hosts they bleed。

Then may sharp suffering their nature grind;

Of rabble passions grow the chieftain Mind。

Yet mark where still broad Nile boasts thousands fed;

For tens up the safe mountains at his head。

Few would be fed; not far his course prolong;

Save for the troublous blood which makes him strong。



… That rings of truth!  More do your people thrive;

Your Many are more merrily alive

Than erewhile when I gloried in the page

Of radiant singer and anointed sage。

Greece was my lamp:  burnt out for lack of oil;

Rome; Python Rome; prey of its robber spoil!

All structures built upon a narrow space

Must fall; from having not your hosts for base。

O thrice must one be you; to see them shift

Along their desert flats; here dash; there drift;

With faith; that of privations and spilt blood;

Comes Reason armed to clear or bank the flood!

And thrice must one be you; to wait release

From duress in the swamp of their increase。

At which oppressive scene; beyond arrest;

A darkness not with stars of heaven dressed;

Philosophers behold; desponding view。

Your Many nourished; starved my brilliant few;

Then flinging heels; as charioteers the reins;

Dive down the fumy AEtna of their brains。

Belated vessels on a rising sea;

They seem:  they pass!



… But not Philosophy!



… Ay; be we faithful to ourselves:  despise

Nought but the coward in us!  That way lies

The wisdom making passage through our slough。

Am I not heard; my head to Earth shall bow;

Like her; shall wait to see; and seeing wait。

Philosophy is Life's one match for Fate。

That photosphere of our high fountain One;

Our spirit's Lord and Reason's fostering sun;

Philosophy; shall light us in the shade;

Warm in the frost; make Good our aim and aid。

Companioned by the sweetest; ay renewed;

Unconquerable; whose aim for aid is Good!

Advantage to the Many:  that we name

God's voice; have there the surety in our aim。

This thought unto my sister do I owe;

And irony and satire off me throw。

They crack a childish whip; drive puny herds;

Where numbers crave their sustenance in words。

Now let the perils thicken:  clearer seen;

Your Chieftain Mind mounts over them serene。

Who never yet of scattered lamps was born

To speed a world; a marching world to warn;

But sunward from the vivid Many springs;

Counts conquest but a step; and through disaster sings。









Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameter Verse









Poem: The Invective Of Achilles







'Iliad; B。 I。 V。 149'



〃Heigh me! brazen of front; thou glutton for plunder; how can one;

Servant here to thy mandates; heed thee among our Achaians;

Either the mission hie on or stoutly do fight with the foemen?

I; not hither I fared on account of the spear…armed Trojans;

Pledged to the combat; they unto me have in nowise a harm done;

Never have they; of a truth; come lifting my horses or oxen;

Never in deep…soiled Phthia; the nurser of heroes; my harvests

Ravaged; they; for between us is numbered full many a darksome

Mountain; ay; therewith too the stretch of the windy sea…waters。

O hugely shameless! thee did we follow to hearten thee; justice

Pluck from the Dardans for him; Menelaos; thee too; thou dog…eyed!

Whereof little thy thought is; nought whatever thou reckest。

Worse; it is thou whose threat 'tis to ravish my prize from me;

portion

Won with much labour; the which my gift from the sons of Achaia。

Never; in sooth; have I known my prize equal thine when Achaians

Gave some flourishing populous Trojan town up to pillage。

Nay; sure; mine were the hands did most in the storm of the combat;

Yet when came peradventure share of the booty amongst us;

Bigger to thee went the prize; while I some small blessed thing

bore

Off to the ships; my share of reward for my toil in the bloodshed!

So now go I to Phthia; for better by much it beseems me

Homeward go with my beaked ships now; and I hold not in prospect;

I being outraged; thou mayst gather here plunder and wealth…store。〃







Poem: The Invective of Achilles … V。 225。







〃Bibber besotted; with scowl of a cur; having heart of a deer;

thou!

Never to join to thy warriors armed for the press of the conflict;

Never for ambush forth with the princeliest sons of Achaia

Dared thy soul; for to thee that thing would have looked as a

death…stroke。

Sooth; more easy it seems; down the lengthened array of Achaians;

Snatch at the prize of the one whose voice has been lifted against

thee。

Ravening king of the folk; for that thou hast thy rule over

abjects;

Else; son of Atreus; now were this outrage on me thy last one。

Nay; but I tell thee; and I do swear a big oath on it likewise:

Yea; by the sceptre here; and it surely bears branches and leaf…

buds

Never again; since first it was lopped from its trunk on the

mountains;

No more sprouting; for round it all clean has the sharp metal

clipped off

Leaves and the bark; ay; verify now do the sons of Achaia;

Guardian hands of the counsels of Zeus; pronouncing the judgement;

Hold it aloft; so now unto thee shall the oath have its portent;

Loud will the cry for Achilles burst from the sons of Achaia

Throughout the army; and thou chafe powerless; though in an

anguish;

How to give succour when vast crops down under man…slaying Hector

Tumble expiring; and thou deep in thee shalt tear at thy heart…

strings;

Rage…wrung; thou; that in nought thou didst honour the flower of

Achaians。〃







Poem: Marshalling Of The Achaians







'Iliad; B。 II V。 455'



Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous;

Up on a mountain height; and the blaze of it radiates round far;

So on the bright blest arms of the host in their march did the

splendour

Gleam wide round through the circle
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