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don juan-第23部分

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Ah! why the liver wilt thou thus attack;
And make; like other nymphs; thy lovers ill?
I would take refuge in weak punch; but rack
(In each sense of the word); whene'er I fill
My mild and midnight beakers to the brim;
Wakes me next morning with its synonym。

I leave Don Juan for the present; safe…
Not sound; poor fellow; but severely wounded;
Yet could his corporal pangs amount to half
Of those with which his Haidee's bosom bounded?
She was not one to weep; and rave; and chafe;
And then give way; subdued because surrounded;
Her mother was a Moorish maid; from Fez;
Where all is Eden; or a wilderness。

There the large olive rains its amber store
In marble fonts; there grain; and flower; and fruit;
Gush from the earth until the land runs o'er;
But there; too; many a poison…tree has root;
And midnight listens to the lion's roar;
And long; long deserts scorch the camel's foot;
Or heaving whelm the helpless caravan;
And as the soil is; so the heart of man。

Afric is all the sun's; and as her earth
Her human day is kindled; full of power
For good or evil; burning from its birth;
The Moorish blood partakes the planet's hour;
And like the soil beneath it will bring forth:
Beauty and love were Haidee's mother's dower;
But her large dark eye show'd deep Passion's force;
Though sleeping like a lion near a source。

Her daughter; temper'd with a milder ray;
Like summer clouds all silvery; smooth; and fair;
Till slowly charged with thunder they display
Terror to earth; and tempest to the air;
Had held till now her soft and milky way;
But overwrought with passion and despair;
The fire burst forth from her Numidian veins;
Even as the Simoom sweeps the blasted plains。

The last sight which she saw was Juan's gore;
And he himself o'ermaster'd and cut down;
His blood was running on the very floor
Where late he trod; her beautiful; her own;
Thus much she view'd an instant and no more;…
Her struggles ceased with one convulsive groan;
On her sire's arm; which until now scarce held
Her writhing; fell she like a cedar fell'd。

A vein had burst; and her sweet lips' pure dyes
Were dabbled with the deep blood which ran o'er;
And her head droop'd as when the lily lies
O'ercharged with rain: her summon'd handmaids bore
Their lady to her couch with gushing eyes;
Of herbs and cordials they produced their store;
But she defied all means they could employ;
Like one life could not hold; nor death destroy。

Days lay she in that state unchanged; though chill…
With nothing livid; still her lips were red;
She had no pulse; but death seem'd absent still;
No hideous sign proclaim'd her surely dead;
Corruption came not in each mind to kill
All hope; to look upon her sweet face bred
New thoughts of life; for it seem'd full of soul…
She had so much; earth could not claim the whole。

The ruling passion; such as marble shows
When exquisitely chisell'd; still lay there;
But fix'd as marble's unchanged aspect throws
O'er the fair Venus; but for ever fair;
O'er the Laocoon's all eternal throes;
And ever…dying Gladiator's air;
Their energy like life forms all their fame;
Yet looks not life; for they are still the same。

She woke at length; but not as sleepers wake;
Rather the dead; for life seem'd something new;
A strange sensation which she must partake
Perforce; since whatsoever met her view
Struck not on memory; though a heavy ache
Lay at her heart; whose earliest beat still true
Brought back the sense of pain without the cause;
For; for a while; the furies made a pause。

She look'd on many a face with vacant eye;
On many a token without knowing what;
She saw them watch her without asking why;
And reck'd not who around her pillow sat;
Not speechless; though she spoke not; not a sigh
Relieved her thoughts; dull silence and quick chat
Were tried in vain by those who served; she gave
No sign; save breath; of having left the grave。

Her handmaids tended; but she heeded not;
Her father watch'd; she turn'd her eyes away;
She recognized no being; and no spot;
However dear or cherish'd in their day;
They changed from room to room… but all forgot…
Gentle; but without memory she lay;
At length those eyes; which they would fain be weaning
Back to old thoughts; wax'd full of fearful meaning。

And then a slave bethought her of a harp;
The harper came; and tuned his instrument;
At the first notes; irregular and sharp;
On him her flashing eyes a moment bent;
Then to the wall she turn'd as if to warp
Her thoughts from sorrow through her heart re…sent;
And he begun a long low island song
Of ancient days; ere tyranny grew strong。

Anon her thin wan fingers beat the wall
In time to his old tune; he changed the theme;
And sung of love; the fierce name struck through all
Her recollection; on her flash'd the dream
Of what she was; and is; if ye could call
To be so being; in a gushing stream
The tears rush'd forth from her o'erclouded brain;
Like mountain mists at length dissolved in rain。

Short solace; vain relief!… thought came too quick;
And whirl'd her brain to madness; she arose
As one who ne'er had dwelt among the sick;
And flew at all she met; as on her foes;
But no one ever heard her speak or shriek;
Although her paroxysm drew towards its dose;…
Hers was a phrensy which disdain'd to rave;
Even when they smote her; in the hope to save。

Yet she betray'd at times a gleam of sense;
Nothing could make her meet her father's face;
Though on all other things with looks intense
She gazed; but none she ever could retrace;
Food she refused; and raiment; no pretence
Avail'd for either; neither change of place;
Nor time; nor skill; nor remedy; could give her
Senses to sleep… the power seem'd gone for ever。

Twelve days and nights she wither'd thus; at last;
Without a groan; or sigh; or glance; to show
A parting pang; the spirit from her past:
And they who watch'd her nearest could not know
The very instant; till the change that cast
Her sweet face into shadow; dull and slow;
Glazed o'er her eyes… the beautiful; the black…
Oh! to possess such lustre… and then lack!

She died; but not alone; she held within
A second principle of life; which might
Have dawn'd a fair and sinless child of sin;
But closed its little being without light;
And went down to the grave unborn; wherein
Blossom and bough lie wither'd with one blight;
In vain the dews of Heaven descend above
The bleeding flower and blasted fruit of love。

Thus lived… thus died she; never more on her
Shall sorrow light; or shame。 She was not made
Through years or moons the inner weight to bear;
Which colder hearts endure till they are laid
By age in earth: her days and pleasures were
Brief; but delightful… such as had not staid
Long with her destiny; but she sleeps well
By the sea…shore; whereon she loved to dwell。

That isle is now all desolate and bare;
Its dwellings down; its tenants pass'd away;
None but her own and father's grave is there;
And nothing outward tells of human clay;
Ye could not know where lies a thing so fair;
No stone is there to show; no tongue to say
What was; no dirge; except the hollow sea's;
Mourns o'er the beauty of the Cyclades。

But many a Greek maid in a loving song
Sighs o'er her name; and many an islander
With her sire's story makes the night less long;
Valour was his; and beauty dwelt with her:
If she loved rashly; her life paid for wrong…
A heavy price must all pay who thus err;
In some shape; let none think to fly the danger;
For soon or late Love is his own avenger。

But let me change this theme which grows too sad;
And lay this sheet of sorrows on the shelf;
I don't much like describing people mad;
For fear of seeming rather touch'd myself…
Besides; I 've no more on this head to add;
And as my Muse is a capricious elf;
We 'll put about; and try another tack
With Juan; left half…kill'd some stanzas back。

Wounded and fetter'd; 'cabin'd; cribb'd; confined;'
Some days and nights elapsed before that he
Could altogether call the past to mind;
And when he did; he found himself at sea;
Sailing six knots an hour before the wind;
The shores of Ilion lay beneath their lee…
Another time he might have liked to see 'em;
But now was not much pleased with Cape Sigaeum。

There; on the green and village…cotted hill; is
(Flank'd by the Hellespont and by the sea)
Entomb'd the bravest of the brave; Achilles;
They say so (Bryant says the contrary):
And further downward; tall and towering still; is
The tumulus… of whom? Heaven knows! 't may be
Patroclus; Ajax; or Protesilaus…
All heroes; who if living still would slay us。

High barrows; without marble or a name;
A vast; untill'd; and mountain…skirted plain;
And Ida in the distance; still the same;
And old Scamander (if 't is he) remain;
The situation seems still form'd for fame…
A hundred thousand men might fight again
With case; but where I sought for Ilion's walls;
The quiet sheep feeds; and the tortoise crawls;

Troops of untended horses; here and there
Some little hamlets; with new names uncouth;
Some shepherds (unlike Paris) led to stare
A moment at the European youth
Whom to the spot their school…boy feelings bear;
A turk; with beads in hand and pipe in mouth;
Extremely taken with his own religion;
Are what I found there… but the devil a Phrygian。

Don Juan; here permitted to emerge
From his dull cabin; found himself a slave;
Forlorn; and gazing on the deep blue surge;
O'ershadow'd there by many a hero's grave;
Weak still with loss of blood; he scarce could urge
A few brief questions; and the answers gave
No very satisfactory information
About his past or present situation。

He saw some fellow captives; who appear'd
To be Italians; as they were in fact;
From them; at least; their destiny he heard;
Which was an odd one; a troop going to act
In Sicily (all singers; duly rear'd
In their vocation) had not been attack'd
In sailing from Livorno by the pirate;
But sold by the impresario at no high rate。

By one of these; the buffo of the party;
Juan was told about their curious case;
For although destined to the Turkish mart; he
Still kept his spirits up… at least his face;
The little fellow really look'd quite hearty;
And bore him with some gaiety a
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