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the home book of verse-3-第18部分

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Downward the voices of Duty call …

Downward; to toil and be mixed with the main。

The dry fields burn; and the mills are to turn;

And a myriad flowers mortally yearn;

And the lordly main from beyond the plain

Calls o'er the hills of Habersham;

Calls through the valleys of Hall。



Sidney Lanier '1842…1881'





〃FLOW GENTLY; SWEET AFTON〃



Flow gently; sweet Afton; among thy green braes;

Flow gently; I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;


My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream;

Flow gently; sweet Afton; disturb not her dream。



Thou stock…dove whose echo resounds through the glen;

Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den;

Thou green…crested lapwing; thy screaming forbear;

I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair。



How lofty; sweet Afton; thy neighboring hills;

Far marked with the courses of clear…winding rill;

There daily I wander as noon rises high;

My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye。



How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below;

Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow;

There oft as mild evening weeps over the lea;

The sweet…scented birk shades my Mary and me。



Thy crystal stream; Afton; how lovely it glides;

And winds by the cot where my Mary resides;

How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave;

As; gathering sweet flowerets; she stems thy clear wave。



Flow gently; sweet Afton; among thy green braes;

Flow gently; sweet river; the theme of my lays;

My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream;

Flow gently; sweet Afton; disturb not her dream。



Robert Burns '1759…1796'





CANADIAN BOAT…SONG

Written On The River St。 Lawrence



Faintly as tolls the evening chime


Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time。

Soon as the woods on shore look dim;

We'll sing at St。 Ann's our parting hymn。

Row; brothers; row; the stream runs fast;

The rapids are near and the daylight's past。



Why should we yet our sail unfurl?

There is not a breath the blue wave to curl;

But; when the wind blows off the shore;

Oh; sweetly we'll rest our weary oar。

Blow; breezes; blow; the stream runs fast;

The rapids are near and the daylight's past。



Utawas' tide! this trembling moon

Shall see us float over thy surges soon。

Saint of this green isle! hear our prayers;

Oh; grant us cool heavens and favoring airs。

Blow; breezes; blow; the stream runs fast;

The rapids are near and the daylight's past。



Thomas Moore '1779…1852'





THE MARSHES OF GLYNN



Glooms of the live…oaks; beautiful…braided and woven

With intricate shades of the vines that myriad…cloven

Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs; …

Emerald twilights; …

Virginal shy lights;

Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows;

When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades

Of the dim sweet woods; of the dear dark woods;

Of the heavenly woods and glades;

That run to the radiant marginal sand…beach within

The wide sea…marshes of Glynn; …

Beautiful glooms; soft dusks in the noonday fire; …

Wildwood privacies; closets of lone desire;

Chamber from chamber parted with wavering arras of leaves; …

Cells for the passionate pleasure of prayer to the soul that grieves;

Pure with a sense of the passing of saints through the wood;

Cool for the dutiful weighing of ill with good; …



O braided dusks of the oak and woven shades of the vine;

While the riotous noonday sun of the June…day long did shine

Ye held me fast in your heart and I held you fast in mine;

But now when the noon is no more; and riot is rest;

And the sun is a…wait at the ponderous gate of the West;

And the slant yellow beam down the wood…aisle doth seem

Like a lane into heaven that leads from a dream; …

Ay; now; when my soul all day hath drunken the soul of the oak;

And my heart is at ease from men; and the wearisome sound of the stroke

Of the scythe of time and the trowel of trade is low;

And belief overmasters doubt; and I know that I know;

And my spirit is grown to a lordly great compass within;

That the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn

Will work me no fear like the fear they have wrought me of yore

When length was fatigue; and when breadth was but bitterness sore;

And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain

Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain; …



Oh; now; unafraid; I am fain to face

The vast sweet visage of space。

To the edge of the wood I am drawn; I am drawn;

Where the gray beach glimmering runs; as a belt of the dawn;

For a mete and a mark

To the forest…dark: …

   So:

Affable live…oak; leaning low; …

Thus … with your favor … soft; with a reverent hand;

(Not lightly touching your person; Lord of the land!)

Bending your beauty aside; with a step I stand

On the firm…packed sand;

   Free

By a world of marsh that borders a world of sea。

Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering band

Of the sand…beach fastens the fringe of the marsh to the folds

  of the land。

Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach…lines

  linger and curl

As a silver wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet

  limbs of a girl。

Vanishing; swerving; evermore curving again into sight;

Softly the sand…beach wavers away to a dim gray looping of light。

And what if behind me to westward the wall of the woods stands high?

The world lies east: how ample; the marsh and the sea and the sky!

A league and a league of marsh…grass; waist…high; broad in the blade;

Green; and all of a height; and unflecked with a light or a shade;

Stretch leisurely off; in a pleasant plain;

To the terminal blue of the main。



Oh; what is abroad in the marsh and the terminal sea?

Somehow my soul seems suddenly free

From the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin;

By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn。



Ye marshes; how candid and simple and nothing…withholding and free

Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!

Tolerant plains; that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun;

Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won

God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain

And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain。



As the marsh…hen secretly builds on the watery sod;

Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God:

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh…hen flies

In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies:

By so many roots as the marsh…grass sends in the sod

I will heartily lay me a…hold on the greatness of God:

Oh; like to the greatness of God is the greatness within

The range of the marshes; the liberal marshes of Glynn。



And the sea lends large; as the marsh: lo; out of his plenty the sea

Pours fast: full soon the time of the flood…tide must be:

Look how the grace of the sea doth go

About and about through the intricate channels that flow

Here and there;

Everywhere;

Till his waters have flooded the uttermost creeks and the low…lying lanes;

And the marsh is meshed with a million veins;

That like as with rosy and silvery essences flow

In the rose…and…silver evening glow。

Farewell; my lord Sun!

The creeks overflow: a thousand rivulets run

'Twixt the roots of the sod; the blades of the marsh…grass stir;

Passeth a hurrying sound of wings that westward whirr;

Passeth; and all is still; and the currents cease to run;

And the sea and the marsh are one。



How still the plains of the waters be!

The tide is in his ecstasy;

The tide is at his highest height:

And it is night。



And now from the Vast of the Lord will the waters of sleep

Roll in on the souls of men;

But who will reveal to our waking ken

The forms that swim and the shapes that creep

Under the waters of sleep?

And I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in

On the length and the breadth of the marvelous marshes of Glynn。



Sidney Lanier '1842…1881'





THE TROSACHS



There's not a nook within this solemn Pass

But were an apt confessional for one

Taught by his summer spent; his autumn gone;

That Life is but a tale of morning grass

Withered at eve。  From scenes of art which chase

That thought away; turn; and with watchful eyes

Feed it 'mid Nature's old felicities;

Rocks; rivers; and smooth lakes more clear than glass

Untouched; unbreathed upon。  Thrice happy quest;

If from a golden perch of aspen spray

(October's workmanship to rival May)

The pensive warbler of the ruddy breast

That moral sweeten by a heaven…taught lay;

Lulling the year; with all its cares; to rest!



William Wordsworth '1700…1850'





HYMN

Before Sunrise; In The Vale Of Chamouni



Hast thou a charm to stay the morning…star

In his steep course?  So long he seems to pause

On thy bald; awful head; O sovereign Blanc!

The Arve and Arveiron at thy base

Rave ceaselessly; but thou; most awful Form;

Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines;

How silently!  Around thee and above

Deep is the air and dark; substantial; black;

An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it;

As with a wedge!  But when I look again;

It is thine own calm home; thy crystal shrine;

Thy habitation from eternity!

O dread and silent Mount!  I gazed upon thee;

Till thou; still present to the bodily sense;

Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer

I worshiped the Invisible alone。



Yet; like some sweet beguiling melody;

So sweet; we know not we are listening to it;

Thou; the meanwhile; wast blending with my thought;

Yea; with my Life and Life's own secret joy:

Till the dilating Soul; enrapt; transfused;

Into the mighty vision passing … there;

As in her natural form; swelled vast to Heaven!



Awake; my soul! not only passive praise

Thou owest! not alone these swelling tears;

Mute thanks and secret ecstasy!  Awake;

Voice of sweet song!  Awake; my Heart; awake!

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