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the home book of verse-3-第3部分
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I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven;
Then with unwilling steps I wander down
Into the clouds of the Atlantic even;
For grief that I depart they weep and frown:
What look is more delightful than the smile
With which I soothe them from the western isle?
I am the eye with which the Universe
Beholds itself; and knows it is divine;
All harmony of instrument or verse;
All prophecy; all medicine; is mine;
All light of art or nature; … to my song
Victory and praise in its own right belong。
Percy Bysshe Shelley '1792…1822'
PRELUDE
From 〃The New Day〃
The night was dark; though sometimes a faint star
A little while a little space made bright。
The night was dark and still the dawn seemed far;
When; o'er the muttering and invisible sea;
Slowly; within the East; there grew a light
Which half was starlight; and half seemed to be
The herald of a greater。 The pale white
Turned slowly to pale rose; and up the height
Of heaven slowly climbed。 The gray sea grew
Rose…colored like the sky。 A white gull flew
Straight toward the utmost boundary of the East
Where slowly the rose gathered and increased。
There was light now; where all was black before:
It was as on the opening of a door
By one who in his hand a lamp doth hold
(Its flame being hidden by the garment's fold); …
The still air moves; the wide room is less dim。
More bright the East became; the ocean turned
Dark and more dark against the brightening sky …
Sharper against the sky the long sea line。
The hollows of the breakers on the shore
Were green like leaves whereon no sun doth shine;
Though sunlight make the outer branches hoar。
From rose to red the level heaven burned;
Then sudden; as if a sword fell from on high;
A blade of gold flashed on the ocean's rim。
Richard Watson Gilder '1844…1909'
DAWN ON THE HEADLAND
Dawn … and a magical stillness: on earth; quiescence profound;
On the waters a vast Content; as of hunger appeased and stayed;
In the heavens a silence that seems not mere privation of sound;
But a thing with form and body; a thing to be touched and weighed!
Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the cosmic wheel;
In the hot collision of Forces; and clangor of boundless Strife;
Mid the sound of the speed of the worlds; the rushing worlds; and the peal
Of the thunder of Life。
William Watson '1858…1935'
THE MIRACLE OF THE DAWN
What would it mean for you and me
If dawn should come no more!
Think of its gold along the sea;
Its rose above the shore!
That rose of awful mystery;
Our souls bow down before。
What wonder that the Inca kneeled;
The Aztec prayed and pled
And sacrificed to it; and sealed; …
With rites that long are dead; …
The marvels that it once revealed
To them it comforted。
What wonder; yea! what awe; behold!
What rapture and what tears
Were ours; if wild its rivered gold; …
That now each day appears; …
Burst on the world; in darkness rolled;
Once every thousand years!
Think what it means to me and you
To see it even as God
Evolved it when the world was new!
When Light rose; earthquake…shod;
And slow its gradual splendor grew
O'er deeps the whirlwind trod。
What shoutings then and cymballings
Arose from depth and height!
What worship…solemn trumpetings;
And thunders; burning…white;
Of winds and waves; and anthemings
Of Earth received the Light。
Think what it meant to see the dawn!
The dawn; that comes each day! …
What if the East should ne'er grow wan;
Should nevermore grow gray!
That line of rose no more be drawn
Above the ocean's spray!
Madison Cawein '1865…1914'
DAWN…ANGELS
All night I watched awake for morning;
At last the East grew all a flame;
The birds for welcome sang; or warning;
And with their singing morning came。
Along the gold…green heavens drifted
Pale wandering souls that shun the light;
Whose cloudy pinions; torn and rifted;
Had beat the bars of Heaven all night。
These clustered round the moon; but higher
A troop of shining spirits went;
Who were not made of wind or fire;
But some divine dream…element。
Some held the Light; while those remaining
Shook out their harvest…colored wings;
A faint unusual music raining;
(Whose sound was Light) on earthly things。
They sang; and as a mighty river
Their voices washed the night away;
From East to West ran one white shiver;
And waxen strong their song was Day。
A。 Mary F。 Robinson '1857…
MUSIC OF THE DAWN
At Sea; October 23; 1907
In far forests' leafy twilight; now is stealing gray dawn's shy light;
And the misty air is tremulous with songs of many a bird;
While from mountain steeps descending; every streamlet's voice is blending
With the anthems of great pine trees; by the breath of daylight stirred。
But I turn from Fancy's dreaming of the green earth; to the gleaming
Of the fluttering wings of morning rushing o'er the jewelled deep;
And the ocean's rhythmic pounding; with each lucent wave resounding;
Seems the music made when God's own hands His mighty harpstrings sweep。
Virginia Bioren Harrison '1847…
SUNRISE ON MANSFIELD MOUNTAIN
O swift forerunners; rosy with the race!
Spirits of dawn; divinely manifest
Behind your blushing banners in the sky;
Daring invaders of Night's tenting…ground; …
How do ye strain on forward…bending foot;
Each to be first in heralding of joy!
With silence sandalled; so they weave their way;
And so they stand; with silence panoplied;
Chanting; through mystic symbollings of flame;
Their solemn invocation to the light。
O changeless guardians! O ye wizard firs!
What strenuous philter feeds your potency;
That thus ye rest; in sweet wood…hardiness。
Ready to learn of all and utter naught?
What breath may move ye; or what breeze invite
To odorous hot lendings of the heart?
What wind … but all the winds are yet afar;
And e'en the little tricksy zephyr sprites;
That fleet before them; like their elfin locks;
Have lagged in sleep; nor stir nor waken yet
To pluck the robe of patient majesty。
Too still for dreaming; too divine for sleep;
So range the firs; the constant; fearless ones。
Warders of mountain secrets; there they wait;
Each with his cloak about him; breathless; calm;
And yet expectant; as who knows the dawn;
And all night thrills with memory and desire;
Searching in what has been for what shall be:
The marvel of the ne'er familiar day;
Sacred investiture of life renewed;
The chrism of dew; the coronal of flame。
Low in the valley lies the conquered rout
Of man's poor trivial turmoil; lost and drowned
Under the mist; in gleaming rivers rolled;
Where oozy marsh contends with frothing main。
And rounding all; springs one full; ambient arch;
One great good limpid world … so still; so still!
For no sound echoes from its crystal curve
Save four clear notes; the song of that lone bird
Who; brave but trembling; tries his morning hymn;
And has no heart to finish; for the awe
And wonder of this pearling globe of dawn。
Light; light eternal! veiling…place of stars!
Light; the revealer of dread beauty's face!
Weaving whereof the hills are lambent clad!
Mighty libation to the Unknown God!
Cup whereat pine…trees slake their giant thirst
And little leaves drink sweet delirium!
Being and breath and potion! Living soul
And all…informing heart of all that lives!
How can we magnify thine awful name
Save by its chanting: Light! and light! and light!
An exhalation from far sky retreats;
It grows in silence; as 'twere self…create;
Suffusing all the dusky web of night。
But one lone corner it invades not yet;
Where low above a black and rimy crag
Hangs the old moon; thin as a battered shield;
The holy; useless shield of long…past wars;
Dinted and frosty; on the crystal dark。
But lo! the east; … let none forget the east;
Pathway ordained of old where He should tread。
Through some sweet magic common in the skies
The rosy banners are with saffron tinct:
The saffron grows to gold; the gold is fire;
And led by silence more majestical
Than clash of conquering arms; He comes! He comes!
He holds his spear benignant; sceptrewise;
And strikes out flame from the adoring hills。
Alice Brown '1857…
ODE TO EVENING
If aught of oaten stop; or pastoral song;
May hope; chaste Eve; to soothe thy modest ear;
Like thy own solemn springs;
Thy springs and dying gales;
O Nymph reserved; while now the bright…haired sun
Sits in yon western tent; whose cloudy skirts;
With brede ethereal wove;
O'erhang his wavy bed:
Now air is hushed; save where the weak…eyed bat
With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing;
Or where the beetle winds
His small but sullen horn;
As oft he rises; 'midst the twilight path
Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum:
Now teach me; maid composed;
To breathe some softened strain;
Whose numbers; stealing through thy darkening vale;
May not unseemly with its stillness suit;
As; musing slow; I hail
Thy genial loved return!
For when thy folding…star arising shows
His paly circlet; at his warning lamp
The fragrant Hours; and Elves
Who slept in buds the day;
And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge;
And sheds the freshening dew; and; lovelier still;
The pensive Pleasures sweet;
Prepare thy shadowy car:
Then lead; calm votaress; where some sheety lake
Cheers the lone heath; or some time…hallowed pile;
Or upland fallows gray
Reflect its last cool gleam。
Or; if chill blustering winds; or driving rain;
Prevent my willing feet; be mine the hut
That; from the mountain's side;
Views wilds and swelling floods;
And hamlets brown; and dim…discovered spires;
And hears their simple bell; and marks o'er all
Thy dewy fingers d
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