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the home book of verse-3-第44部分

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Neebor wives! now tent my tellin':

When the bonny fish ye're sellin';

At ae word be; in ye're dealin'!

Truth will stand; when a' thing's failin'; 

Wha'll buy my caller herrin';

New drawn frae the Forth?



Carolina Nairne '1766…1845'





HANNAH BINDING SHOES



Poor lone Hannah;

Sitting at the window; binding shoes:

Faded; wrinkled;

Sitting; stitching; in a mournful muse。

Bright…eyed beauty once was she;

When the bloom was on the tree; …

Spring and winter;

Hannah's at the window; binding shoes。



Not a neighbor

Passing; nod or answer will refuse

To her whisper;

〃Is there from the fishers any news?〃

Oh; her heart's adrift with one

On an endless voyage gone; …

Night and morning;

Hannah's at the window; binding shoes。



Fair young Hannah;

Ben; the sunburnt fisher; gaily wooes;

Hale and clever;

For a willing heart and hand he sues。

May…day skies are all aglow;

And the waves are laughing so!

For her wedding

Hannah leaves her window and her shoes。



May is passing;

'Mid the apple…boughs a pigeon cooes:

Hannah shudders;

For the mild south…wester mischief brews。

Round the rocks of Marblehead;

Outward bound; a schooner sped;

Silent; lonesome;

Hannah's at the window; binding shoes。



'Tis November:

Now no tear her wasted cheek bedews;

From Newfoundland

Not a sail returning will she lose;

Whispering hoarsely: 〃Fishermen;

Have you; have you heard of Ben?〃

Old with watching;

Hannah's at the window; binding shoes。



Twenty winters

Bleak and drear the ragged shore she views。

Twenty seasons: …

Never one has brought her any news。

Still her dim eyes silently

Chase the white sails o'er the sea; …

Hopeless; faithful;

Hannah's at the window; binding shoes。



Lucy Larcom '1824…1893'





THE SAILOR

A Romaic Ballad



Thou that hast a daughter

For one to woo and wed;

Give her to a husband

With snow upon his head;

Oh; give her to an old man;

Though little joy it be;

Before the best young sailor

That sails upon the sea!



How luckless is the sailor

When sick and like to die;

He sees no tender mother;

No sweetheart standing by。

Only the captain speaks to him; …

Stand up; stand up; young man;

And steer the ship to haven;

As none beside thee can。



Thou says't to me; 〃Stand; stand up〃;

I say to thee; take hold;

Lift me a little from the deck;

My hands and feet are cold。

And let my head; I pray thee;

With handkerchiefs be bound;

There; take my love's gold handkerchief;

And tie it tightly round。



Now bring the chart; the doleful chart;

See; where these mountains meet …

The clouds are thick around their head;

The mists around their feet:

Cast anchor here; 'tis deep and safe

Within the rocky cleft;

The little anchor on the right;

The great one on the left。



And now to thee; O captain;

Most earnestly I pray;

That they may never bury me

In church or cloister gray; …

But on the windy sea…beach;

At the ending of the land;

All on the surly sea…beach;

Deep down into the sand。



For there will come the sailors;

Their voices I shall hear;

And at casting of the anchor

The yo…ho loud and clear;

And at hauling of the anchor

The yo…ho and the cheer; …

Farewell; my love; for to thy bay

I never more may steer!



William Allingham '1824…1889'





THE BURIAL OF THE DANE



Blue gulf all around us;

Blue sky overhead …

Muster all on the quarter;

We must bury the dead!



It is but a Danish sailor; 

Rugged of front and form;

A common son of the forecastle;

Grizzled with sun and storm。



His name; and the strand he hailed from

We know; and there's nothing more!

But perhaps his mother is waiting

In the lonely Island of Fohr。



Still; as he lay there dying;

Reason drifting awreck;

〃'Tis my watch。〃 he would mutter;

〃I must go upon deck!〃



Aye; on deck; by the foremast!

But watch and lookout are done;

The Union Jack laid o'er him;

How quiet he lies in the sun!



Slow the ponderous engine;

Stay the hurrying shaft;

Let the roll of the ocean

Cradle our giant craft;

Gather around the grating;

Carry your messmate aft!



Stand in order; and listen

To the holiest page of prayer!

Let every foot be quiet;

Every head be bare …

The soft trade…wind is lifting

A hundred locks of hair。



Our captain reads the service;

(A little spray on his cheeks)

The grand old words of burial;

And the trust a true heart seeks: …

〃We therefore commit his body

To the deep〃 … and; as he speaks;



Launched from the weather railing;

Swift as the eye can mark;

The ghastly; shotted hammock

Plunges; away from the shark;

Down; a thousand fathoms;

Down into the dark!



A thousand summers and winters

The stormy Gulf shall roll

High o'er his canvas coffin;

But; silence to doubt and dole: …

There's a quiet harbor somewhere

For the poor aweary soul。



Free the fettered engine;

Speed the tireless shaft;

Loose to'gallant and topsail;

The breeze is fair abaft!



Blue sea all around us;

Blue sky bright o'erhead …

Every man to his duty;

We have buried our dead!



Henry Howard Brownell '1820…1872'





TOM BOWLING



Here; a sheer hulk; lies poor Tom Bowling;

The darling of our crew;

No more he'll hear the tempest howling;

For death has broached him to。

His form was of the manliest beauty;

His heart was kind and soft;

Faithful; below; he did his duty;

But now he's gone aloft。



Tom never from his word departed;

His virtues were so rare;

His friends were many and true…hearted;

His Poll was kind and fair:

And then he'd sing; so blithe and jolly;

Ah; many's the time and oft!

But mirth is turned to melancholy;

For Tom is gone aloft。



Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather;

When He; who all commands;

Shall give; to call Life's crew together;

The word to 〃pipe all hands。〃

Thus Death; who Kings and Tars despatches;

In vain Tom's life has doffed;

For; though his body's under hatches;

His soul is gone aloft。



Charles Dibdin '1745…1814'





MESSMATES



Ha gave us all a good…by cheerily

At the first dawn of day;

We dropped him down the side full drearily

When the light died away。

It's a dead dark watch that he's a…keeping there;

And a long; long night that lags a…creeping there;

Where the Trades and the tides roll over him

And the great ships go by。



He's there alone with green seas rocking him

For a thousand miles around;

He's there alone with dumb things mocking him;

And we're homeward bound。

It's a long; lone watch that he's a…keeping there;

And a dead cold night that lags a…creeping there;

While the months and the years roll over him

And the great ships go by。



I wonder if the tramps come near enough;

As they thrash to and fro;

And the battleships' bells ring clear enough

To be heard down below;

If through all the lone watch that he's a…keeping there;

And the long; cold night that lags a…creeping there;

The voices of the sailor…men shall comfort him

When the great ships go by。



Henry Newbolt '1862…





THE LAST BUCCANEER



Oh; England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high;

But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I;

And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again

As the pleasant Isle of Aves; beside the Spanish main。



There were forty craft in Aves that were both swift and stout;

All furnished well with small arms and cannons round about;

And a thousand men in Aves made laws so fair and free

To choose their valiant captains and obey them loyally。



Thence we sailed against the Spaniard with his hoards of plate and gold;

Which he wrung with cruel tortures from Indian folk of old;

Likewise the merchant captains; with hearts as hard as stone;

Who flog men and keelhaul them; and starve them to the bone。



Oh; the palms grew high in Aves; and fruits that shone like gold;

And the colibris and parrots they were gorgeous to behold;

And the negro maids to Aves from bondage fast did flee;

To welcome gallant sailors; a…sweeping in from sea。



Oh; sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze;

A…swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees;

With a negro lass to fan you; while you listened to the roar

Of the breakers on the reef outside; that never touched the shore。



But Scripture saith; an ending to all fine things must be;

So the King's ships sailed on Aves; and quite put down were we。

All day we fought like bulldogs; but they burst the booms at night;

And I fled in a piragua; sore wounded; from the fight。



Nine days I floated starving; and a negro lass beside;

Till for all I tried to cheer her; the poor young thing she died;

But as I lay a…gasping; a Bristol sail came by;

And brought me home to England here; to beg until I die。



And now I'm old and going … I'm sure I can't tell where;

One comfort is; this world's so hard; I can't be worse off there:

If I might but be a sea…dove; I'd fly across the main;

To the pleasant Isle of Aves; to look at it once again。



Charles Kingsley '1819…1875'





THE LAST BUCCANEER



The winds were yelling; the waves were swelling;

The sky was black and drear;

When the crew with eyes of flame brought the ship without a name

Alongside the last Buccaneer。



〃Whence flies your sloop full sail before so fierce a gale;

When all others drive bare on the seas?

Say; come ye from the shore of the holy Salvador;

Or the gulf of the rich Caribbees?〃



〃From a shore no search hath found; from a gull no line can sound;

Without rudder or needle we steer;

Above; below our bark dies the sea…fowl and the shark;

As we fly by the last Buccaneer。



〃To…night there shall be heard on the rocks of Cape de Verde

A loud crash and a louder roar;

And to…morrow shall the deep with a heavy moaning 
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