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the home book of verse-1-第66部分
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Appointed for my second race;
Or taught my soul to fancy aught
But a white; celestial thought;
When yet I had not walked above
A mile or two from my first Love;
And looking back; at that short space;
Could see a glimpse of His bright face;
When on some gilded cloud or flower
My gazing soul would dwell an hour;
And in those weaker glories spy
Some shadows of eternity;
Before I taught my tongue to wound
My Conscience with a sinful sound;
Or had the black art to dispense
A several sin to every sense;
But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness。
O how I long to travel back;
And tread again that ancient track!
That I might once more reach that plain
Where first I left my glorious train;
From whence the enlightened spirit sees
That shady City of Palm…trees。
But ah! my soul with too much stay
Is drunk; and staggers in the way!
Some men a forward motion love;
But I by backward steps would move;
And; when this dust falls to the urn;
In that state I came; return。
Henry Vaughan '1622…1695'
A SUPERSCRIPTION
Look in my face; my name is Might…have…been;
I am also called No…more; Too…late; Farewell;
Unto thine ear I hold the dead…sea shell
Cast up thy Life's foam…fretted feet between;
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Life's form and Love's; but by my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable;
Of ultimate things unuttered the frail screen。
Mark me; how still I am! But should there dart
One moment through thy soul the soft surprise
Of that winged Peace which lulls the breath of sighs; …
Then shalt thou see me smile; and turn apart
Thy visage to mine ambush at thy heart
Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes。
Dante Gabriel Rossetti '1828…1882'
THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN
When to the garden of untroubled thought
I came of late; and saw the open door;
And wished again to enter; and explore
The sweet; wild ways with stainless bloom inwrought;
And bowers of innocence with beauty fraught;
It seemed some purer voice must speak before
I dared to tread that garden loved of yore;
That Eden lost unknown and found unsought。
Then just within the gate I saw a child; …
A stranger…child; yet to my heart most dear; …
Who held his hands to me and softly smiled
With eyes that knew no shade of sin or fear;
〃Come in;〃 he said; 〃and play awhile with me;
I am the little child you used to be。〃
Henry Van Dyke '1852…1933'
CASTLES IN THE AIR
My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the Past alone I build
My castles in the air。
I dwell not now on what may be;
Night shadows o'er the scene;
But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been。
Thomas Love Peacock '1785…1866'
SOMETIMES
Across the fields of yesterday
He sometimes comes to me;
A little lad just back from play …
The lad I used to be。
And yet he smiles so wistfully
Once he has crept within;
I wonder if he hopes to see
The man I might have been。
Thomas S。 Jones; Jr。 '1882…1932'
THE LITTLE GHOSTS
Where are they gone; and do you know
If they come back at fall o' dew;
The little ghosts of long ago;
That long ago were you?
And all the songs that ne'er were sung。
And all the dreams that ne'er came true;
Like little children dying young …
Do they come back to you?
Thomas S。 Jones; Jr。 '1882…1932'
MY OTHER ME
Children; do you ever;
In walks by land or sea;
Meet a little maiden
Long time lost to me?
She is gay and gladsome;
Has a laughing face;
And a heart as sunny;
And her name is Grace。
Naught she knows of sorrow;
Naught of doubt or blight;
Heaven is just above her …
All her thoughts are white。
Long time since I lost her;
That other Me of mine;
She crossed; into Time's shadow
Out of Youth's sunshine。
Now the darkness keeps her;
And; call her as I will;
The years that lie between us
Hide her from me still。
I am dull and pain…worn;
And lonely as can be …
Oh; children; if you meet her;
Send back my other Me!
Grace Denio Litchfield '1849…
A SHADOW BOAT
Under my keel another boat
Sails as I sail; floats as I float;
Silent and dim and mystic still;
It steals through that weird nether…world;
Mocking my power; though at my will
The foam before its prow is curled;
Or calm it lies; with canvas furled。
Vainly I peer; and fain would see
What phantom in that boat may be;
Yet half I dread; lest I with ruth
Some ghost of my dead past divine;
Some gracious shape of my lost youth;
Whose deathless eyes once fixed on mine
Would draw me downward through the brine!
Arlo Bates '1850…1918'
A LAD THAT IS GONE
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone;
Say; could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye。
Mull was astern; Rum on the port;
Eigg on the starboard bow;
Glory of youth glowed in his soul:
Where is that glory now?
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone;
Say; could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye。
Give me again all that was there;
Give me the sun that shone!
Give me the eyes; give me the soul;
Give me the lad that's gone!
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone;
Say; could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye。
Billow and breeze; islands and seas;
Mountains of rain and sun;
All that was good; all that was fair;
All that was me is gone。
Robert Louis Stevenson '1850…1894'
CARCASSONNE
〃I'm growing old; I've sixty years;
I've labored all my life in vain。
In all that time of hopes and fears;
I've failed my dearest wish to gain。
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none;
My prayer would else fulfilment know …
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
〃You see the city from the hill;
It lies beyond the mountains blue;
And yet to reach it one must still
Five long and weary leagues pursue;
And; to return; as many more。
Had but the vintage plenteous grown …
But; ah! the grape withheld its store。
I shall not look on Carcassonne!
〃They tell me every day is there
Not more or less than Sunday gay;
In shining robes and garments fair
The people walk upon their way。
One gazes there on castle walls
As grand as those of Babylon;
A bishop and two generals!
What joy to dwell in Carcassonne!
〃The vicar's right: he says that we
Are ever wayward; weak; and blind;
He tells us in his homily
Ambition ruins all mankind;
Yet could I there two days have spent;
While still the autumn sweetly shone;
Ah; me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne。
〃Thy pardon; Father; I beseech;
In this my prayer if I offend;
One something sees beyond his reach
From childhood to his journey's end。
My wife; our little boy; Aignan;
Have travelled even to Narbonne;
My grandchild has seen Perpignan;
And I … have not seen Carcassonne!〃
So crooned; one day; close by Limoux;
A peasant; double…bent with age。
〃Rise up; my friend;〃 said I; 〃with you
I'll go upon this pilgrimage。〃
We left; next morning; his abode;
But (Heaven forgive him!) half…way on
The old man died upon the road。
He never gazed on Carcassonne。
Translated by John R。 Thompson from the French of
Gustave Nadaud '1820… ? '
CHILDHOOD
Old Sorrow I shall meet again;
And Joy; perchance … but never; never;
Happy Childhood; shall we twain
See each other's face forever!
And yet I would not call thee back;
Dear Childhood; lest the sight of me;
Thine old companion; on the rack
Of Age; should sadden even thee。
John Banister Tabb '1845…1909'
THE WASTREL
Once; when I was little; as the summer night was falling;
Among the purple upland fields I lost my barefoot way;
The road to home was hidden fast; and frightful shadows; crawling
Along the sky…line; swallowed up the last kind light of day;
And then I seemed to hear you
In the twilight; and be near you;
Seemed to hear your dear voice calling …
Through the meadows; calling; calling …
And I followed and I found you;
Flung my tired arms around you;
And rested on the mother…breast; returned; tired out from play。
Down the days from that day; though I trod strange paths unheeding;
Though I chased the jack…o'…lanterns of so many maddened years;
Though I never looked behind me; where the home…lights were receding;
Though I never looked enough ahead to ken the Inn of Fears;
Still I knew your heart was near me;
That your ear was strained to hear me;
That your love would need no pleading
To forgive me; but was pleading
Of its self that; in disaster;
I should run to you the faster
And be sure that I was dearer for your sacrifice of tears。
Now on life's last Summertime the long last dusk is falling;
And I; who trod one way so long; can tread no other way
Until at death's dim crossroads I watch; hesitant; the crawling
Night…passages that maze me with the ultimate dismay。
Then when Death and Doubt shall blind me …
Even then … I know you'll find me:
I shall hear you; Mother; calling …
Hear you calling … calling … calling:
I shall fight and follow … find you
Though the grave…clothes swathe and bind you;
And I know your love will answer: 〃Here's my laddie home from play!〃
Reginald Wright Kauffman '1877…
TROIA FUIT
The world was wide when I was young;
My schoolday hills and dales among;
But; oh; it needs no Puck to put;
With whipping wing and flying foot;
A girdle 'round the narrow sphere
In which I labor now and here!
Life's face was fair when careless I
First loved beneath an April sky;
And wept those fine…imagined woes
That youth at nineteen th
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