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the man against the sky-第4部分

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For fear of giving all things to one creature;

Left out the first;  faith; innocence; illusion;

Whatever 'tis that keeps us out o' Bedlam; 

And thereby; for his too consuming vision;

Empowered him out of nature; though to see him;

You'd never guess what's going on inside him。

He'll break out some day like a keg of ale

With too much independent frenzy in it;

And all for cellaring what he knows won't keep;

And what he'd best forget  but that he can't。

You'll have it; and have more than I'm foretelling;

And there'll be such a roaring at the Globe

As never stunned the bleeding gladiators。

He'll have to change the color of its hair

A bit; for now he calls it Cleopatra。

Black hair would never do for Cleopatra。



But you and I are not yet two old women;

And you're a man of office。  What he does

Is more to you than how it is he does it; 

And that's what the Lord God has never told him。

They work together; and the Devil helps 'em;

They do it of a morning; or if not;

They do it of a night; in which event

He's peevish of a morning。  He seems old;

He's not the proper stomach or the sleep 

And they're two sovran agents to conserve him

Against the fiery art that has no mercy

But what's in that prodigious grand new House。

I gather something happening in his boyhood

Fulfilled him with a boy's determination

To make all Stratford 'ware of him。  Well; well;

I hope at last he'll have his joy of it;

And all his pigs and sheep and bellowing beeves;

And frogs and owls and unicorns; moreover;

Be less than hell to his attendant ears。

Oh; past a doubt we'll all go down to see him。



He may be wise。  With London two days off;

Down there some wind of heaven may yet revive him;

But there's no quickening breath from anywhere

Shall make of him again the poised young faun

From Warwickshire; who'd made; it seems; already

A legend of himself before I came

To blink before the last of his first lightning。

Whatever there be; they'll be no more of that;

The coming on of his old monster Time

Has made him a still man; and he has dreams

Were fair to think on once; and all found hollow。

He knows how much of what men paint themselves

Would blister in the light of what they are;

He sees how much of what was great now shares

An eminence transformed and ordinary;

He knows too much of what the world has hushed

In others; to be loud now for himself;

He knows now at what height low enemies

May reach his heart; and high friends let him fall;

But what not even such as he may know

Bedevils him the worst:  his lark may sing

At heaven's gate how he will; and for as long

As joy may listen; but HE sees no gate;

Save one whereat the spent clay waits a little

Before the churchyard has it; and the worm。

Not long ago; late in an afternoon;

I came on him unseen down Lambeth way;

And on my life I was afear'd of him:

He gloomed and mumbled like a soul from Tophet;

His hands behind him and his head bent solemn。

〃What is it now;〃 said I;  〃another woman?〃

That made him sorry for me; and he smiled。

〃No; Ben;〃 he mused; 〃it's Nothing。  It's all Nothing。

We come; we go; and when we're done; we're done;

Spiders and flies  we're mostly one or t'other 

We come; we go; and when we're done; we're done。〃

〃By God; you sing that song as if you knew it!〃

Said I; by way of cheering him; 〃what ails ye?〃

〃I think I must have come down here to think;〃

Says he to that; and pulls his little beard;

〃Your fly will serve as well as anybody;

And what's his hour?  He flies; and flies; and flies;

And in his fly's mind has a brave appearance;

And then your spider gets him in her net;

And eats him out; and hangs him up to dry。

That's Nature; the kind mother of us all。

And then your slattern housemaid swings her broom;

And where's your spider?  And that's Nature; also。

It's Nature; and it's Nothing。  It's all Nothing。

It's all a world where bugs and emperors

Go singularly back to the same dust;

Each in his time; and the old; ordered stars

That sang together; Ben; will sing the same

Old stave to…morrow。〃



                       When he talks like that;

There's nothing for a human man to do

But lead him to some grateful nook like this

Where we be now; and there to make him drink。

He'll drink; for love of me; and then be sick;

A sad sign always in a man of parts;

And always very ominous。  The great

Should be as large in liquor as in love; 

And our great friend is not so large in either:

One disaffects him; and the other fails him;

Whatso he drinks that has an antic in it;

He's wondering what's to pay in his insides;

And while his eyes are on the Cyprian

He's fribbling all the time with that damned House。

We laugh here at his thrift; but after all

It may be thrift that saves him from the devil;

God gave it; anyhow;  and we'll suppose

He knew the compound of his handiwork。

To…day the clouds are with him; but anon

He'll out of 'em enough to shake the tree

Of life itself and bring down fruit unheard…of; 

And; throwing in the bruised and whole together;

Prepare a wine to make us drunk with wonder;

And if he live; there'll be a sunset spell

Thrown over him as over a glassed lake

That yesterday was all a black wild water。



God send he live to give us; if no more;

What now's a…rampage in him; and exhibit;

With a decent half…allegiance to the ages

An earnest of at least a casual eye

Turned once on what he owes to Gutenberg;

And to the fealty of more centuries

Than are as yet a picture in our vision。

〃There's time enough;  I'll do it when I'm old;

And we're immortal men;〃 he says to that;

And then he says to me; 〃Ben; what's ‘immortal'?

Think you by any force of ordination

It may be nothing of a sort more noisy

Than a small oblivion of component ashes

That of a dream…addicted world was once

A moving atomy much like your friend here?〃

Nothing will help that man。  To make him laugh;

I said then he was a mad mountebank; 

And by the Lord I nearer made him cry。

I could have eat an eft then; on my knees;

Tail; claws; and all of him; for I had stung

The king of men; who had no sting for me;

And I had hurt him in his memories;

And I say now; as I shall say again;

I love the man this side idolatry。



He'll do it when he's old; he says。  I wonder。

He may not be so ancient as all that。

For such as he; the thing that is to do

Will do itself;  but there's a reckoning;

The sessions that are now too much his own;

The roiling inward of a stilled outside;

The churning out of all those blood…fed lines;

The nights of many schemes and little sleep;

The full brain hammered hot with too much thinking;

The vexed heart over…worn with too much aching; 

This weary jangling of conjoined affairs

Made out of elements that have no end;

And all confused at once; I understand;

Is not what makes a man to live forever。

O no; not now!  He'll not be going now:

There'll be time yet for God knows what explosions

Before he goes。  He'll stay awhile。  Just wait:

Just wait a year or two for Cleopatra;

For she's to be a balsam and a comfort;

And that's not all a jape of mine now; either。

For granted once the old way of Apollo

Sings in a man; he may then; if he's able;

Strike unafraid whatever strings he will

Upon the last and wildest of new lyres;

Nor out of his new magic; though it hymn

The shrieks of dungeoned hell; shall he create

A madness or a gloom to shut quite out

A cleaving daylight; and a last great calm

Triumphant over shipwreck and all storms。

He might have given Aristotle creeps;

But surely would have given him his ‘katharsis'。



He'll not be going yet。  There's too much yet

Unsung within the man。  But when he goes;

I'd stake ye coin o' the realm his only care

For a phantom world he sounded and found wanting

Will be a portion here; a portion there;

Of this or that thing or some other thing

That has a patent and intrinsical

Equivalence in those egregious shillings。

And yet he knows; God help him!  Tell me; now;

If ever there was anything let loose

On earth by gods or devils heretofore

Like this mad; careful; proud; indifferent Shakespeare!

Where was it; if it ever was?  By heaven;

'Twas never yet in Rhodes or Pergamon 

In Thebes or Nineveh; a thing like this!

No thing like this was ever out of England;

And that he knows。  I wonder if he cares。

Perhaps he does。 。 。 。  O Lord; that House in Stratford!









Eros Turannos







She fears him; and will always ask

 What fated her to choose him;

She meets in his engaging mask

 All reasons to refuse him;

But what she meets and what she fears

Are less than are the downward years;

Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs

 Of age; were she to lose him。



Between a blurred sagacity

 That once had power to sound him;

And Love; that will not let him be

 The Judas that she found him;

Her pride assuages her almost;

As if it were alone the cost。 

He sees that he will not be lost;

 And waits and looks around him。



A sense of ocean and old trees

 Envelops and allures him;

Tradition; touching all he sees;

 Beguiles and reassures him;

And all her doubts of what he says

Are dimmed of what she knows of days 

Till even prejudice delays

 And fades; and she secures him。



The falling leaf inaugurates

 The reign of her confusion;

The pounding wave reverberates

 The dirge of her illusion;

And home; where passion lived and died;

Becomes a place where she can hide;

While all the town and harbor side

 Vibrate with her seclusion。



We tell you; tapping on our brows;

 The story as it should be; 

As if the story of a house

 Were told; or ever could be;

We'll have no kindly veil between

Her visions and those we have seen; 

As if we guessed what hers have been;

 Or what they are or would be。



Meanwhile we do no harm; for they

 That with a god 
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