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the man against the sky-第6部分

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No dark and evil story of the dead

Would leave you less pernicious or less fair 

Not even Lilith; with her famous hair;

And Lilith was the devil; I have read。

I cannot hate you; for I loved you then。

The woods were golden then。  There was a road

Through beeches; and I said their smooth feet showed

Like yours。  Truth must have heard me from afar;

For I shall never have to learn again

That yours are cloven as no beech's are。









The Voice of Age







She'd look upon us; if she could;

As hard as Rhadamanthus would;

Yet one may see;  who sees her face;

Her crown of silver and of lace;

Her mystical serene address

Of age alloyed with loveliness; 

That she would not annihilate

The frailest of things animate。



She has opinions of our ways;

And if we're not all mad; she says; 

If our ways are not wholly worse

Than others; for not being hers; 

There might somehow be found a few

Less insane things for us to do;

And we might have a little heed

Of what Belshazzar couldn't read。



She feels; with all our furniture;

Room yet for something more secure

Than our self…kindled aureoles

To guide our poor forgotten souls;

But when we have explained that grace

Dwells now in doing for the race;

She nods  as if she were relieved;

Almost as if she were deceived。



She frowns at much of what she hears;

And shakes her head; and has her fears;

Though none may know; by any chance;

What rose…leaf ashes of romance

Are faintly stirred by later days

That would be well enough; she says;

If only people were more wise;

And grown…up children used their eyes。









The Dark House







Where a faint light shines alone;

Dwells a Demon I have known。

Most of you had better say

〃The Dark House〃; and go your way。

Do not wonder if I stay。



For I know the Demon's eyes;

And their lure that never dies。

Banish all your fond alarms;

For I know the foiling charms

Of her eyes and of her arms;



And I know that in one room

Burns a lamp as in a tomb;

And I see the shadow glide;

Back and forth; of one denied

Power to find himself outside。



There he is who is my friend;

Damned; he fancies; to the end 

Vanquished; ever since a door

Closed; he thought; for evermore

On the life that was before。



And the friend who knows him best

Sees him as he sees the rest

Who are striving to be wise

While a Demon's arms and eyes

Hold them as a web would flies。



All the words of all the world;

Aimed together and then hurled;

Would be stiller in his ears

Than a closing of still shears

On a thread made out of years。



But there lives another sound;

More compelling; more profound;

There's a music; so it seems;

That assuages and redeems;

More than reason; more than dreams。



There's a music yet unheard

By the creature of the word;

Though it matters little more

Than a wave…wash on a shore 

Till a Demon shuts a door。



So; if he be very still

With his Demon; and one will;

Murmurs of it may be blown

To my friend who is alone

In a room that I have known。



After that from everywhere

Singing life will find him there;

Then the door will open wide;

And my friend; again outside;

Will be living; having died。









The Poor Relation







No longer torn by what she knows

And sees within the eyes of others;

Her doubts are when the daylight goes;

Her fears are for the few she bothers。

She tells them it is wholly wrong

Of her to stay alive so long;

And when she smiles her forehead shows

A crinkle that had been her mother's。



Beneath her beauty; blanched with pain;

And wistful yet for being cheated;

A child would seem to ask again

A question many times repeated;

But no rebellion has betrayed

Her wonder at what she has paid

For memories that have no stain;

For triumph born to be defeated。



To those who come for what she was 

The few left who know where to find her 

She clings; for they are all she has;

And she may smile when they remind her;

As heretofore; of what they know

Of roses that are still to blow

By ways where not so much as grass

Remains of what she sees behind her。



They stay a while; and having done

What penance or the past requires;

They go; and leave her there alone

To count her chimneys and her spires。

Her lip shakes when they go away;

And yet she would not have them stay;

She knows as well as anyone

That Pity; having played; soon tires。



But one friend always reappears;

A good ghost; not to be forsaken;

Whereat she laughs and has no fears

Of what a ghost may reawaken;

But welcomes; while she wears and mends

The poor relation's odds and ends;

Her truant from a tomb of years 

Her power of youth so early taken。



Poor laugh; more slender than her song

It seems; and there are none to hear it

With even the stopped ears of the strong

For breaking heart or broken spirit。

The friends who clamored for her place;

And would have scratched her for her face;

Have lost her laughter for so long

That none would care enough to fear it。



None live who need fear anything

From her; whose losses are their pleasure;

The plover with a wounded wing

Stays not the flight that others measure;

So there she waits; and while she lives;

And death forgets; and faith forgives;

Her memories go foraging

For bits of childhood song they treasure。



And like a giant harp that hums

On always; and is always blending

The coming of what never comes

With what has past and had an ending;

The City trembles; throbs; and pounds

Outside; and through a thousand sounds

The small intolerable drums

Of Time are like slow drops descending。



Bereft enough to shame a sage

And given little to long sighing;

With no illusion to assuage

The lonely changelessness of dying; 

Unsought; unthought…of; and unheard;

She sings and watches like a bird;

Safe in a comfortable cage

From which there will be no more flying。









The Burning Book



  Or the Contented Metaphysician







To the lore of no manner of men

 Would his vision have yielded

When he found what will never again

 From his vision be shielded; 

Though he paid with as much of his life

 As a nun could have given;

And to…night would have been as a knife;

 Devil…drawn; devil…driven。



For to…night; with his flame…weary eyes

 On the work he is doing;

He considers the tinder that flies

 And the quick flame pursuing。

In the leaves that are crinkled and curled

 Are his ashes of glory;

And what once were an end of the world

 Is an end of a story。



But he smiles; for no more shall his days

 Be a toil and a calling

For a way to make others to gaze

 On God's face without falling。

He has come to the end of his words;

 And alone he rejoices

In the choiring that silence affords

 Of ineffable voices。



To a realm that his words may not reach

 He may lead none to find him;

An adept; and with nothing to teach;

 He leaves nothing behind him。

For the rest; he will have his release;

 And his embers; attended

By the large and unclamoring peace

 Of a dream that is ended。









Fragment







Faint white pillars that seem to fade

As you look from here are the first one sees

Of his house where it hides and dies in a shade

Of beeches and oaks and hickory trees。

Now many a man; given woods like these;

And a house like that; and the Briony gold;

Would have said; 〃There are still some gods to please;

And houses are built without hands; we're told。〃



There are the pillars; and all gone gray。

Briony's hair went white。  You may see

Where the garden was if you come this way。

That sun…dial scared him; he said to me;

〃Sooner or later they strike;〃 said he;

And he never got that from the books he read。

Others are flourishing; worse than he;

But he knew too much for the life he led。



And who knows all knows everything

That a patient ghost at last retrieves;

There's more to be known of his harvesting

When Time the thresher unbinds the sheaves;

And there's more to be heard than a wind that grieves

For Briony now in this ageless oak;

Driving the first of its withered leaves

Over the stones where the fountain broke。









Lisette and Eileen







〃When he was here alive; Eileen;

There was a word you might have said;

So never mind what I have been;

Or anything;  for you are dead。



〃And after this when I am there

Where he is; you'll be dying still。

Your eyes are dead; and your black hair; 

The rest of you be what it will。



〃'Twas all to save him?  Never mind;

Eileen。  You saved him。  You are strong。

I'd hardly wonder if your kind

Paid everything; for you live long。



〃You last; I mean。  That's what I mean。

I mean you last as long as lies。

You might have said that word; Eileen; 

And you might have your hair and eyes。



〃And what you see might be Lisette;

Instead of this that has no name。

Your silence  I can feel it yet;

Alive and in me; like a flame。



〃Where might I be with him to…day;

Could he have known before he heard?

But no  your silence had its way;

Without a weapon or a word。



〃Because a word was never told;

I'm going as a worn toy goes。

And you are dead; and you'll be old;

And I forgive you; I suppose。



〃I'll soon be changing as all do;

To something we have always been;

And you'll be old 。 。 。  He liked you; too。

I might have killed you then; Eileen。



〃I think he liked as much of you

As had a reason to be seen; 

As much as God made black and blue。

He liked your hair and eyes; Eileen。〃









Llewellyn and the Tree







Could he have made Priscilla share

 The paradise that he had planned;

Llewellyn would have loved his wife

 As well as any in the land。



Could he hav
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