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the home book of verse-3-第48部分
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She who is all the world; and can exclude
In deserts solitude。
I should have then this only fear:
Lest men; when they my pleasures see;
Should hither throng to live like me;
And so make a city here。
Abraham Cowley '1618…1667'
EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY
〃Why; William; on that old gray stone;
Thus for the length of half a day;
Why; William; sit you thus alone;
And dream your time away?
〃Where are your books? … that light bequeathed
To beings else forlorn and blind!
Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed
From dead men to their kind。
〃You look round on your Mother Earth;
As if she for no purpose bore you;
As if you were her first…born birth;
And none had lived before you!〃
One morning thus; by Esthwaite lake;
When life was sweet; I knew not why;
To me my good friend Matthew spake
And thus I made reply:
〃The eye … it cannot choose but see;
We cannot bid the ear be still;
Our bodies feel; where'er they be;
Against or with our will。
〃Nor less I dream that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness。
〃Think you; 'mid all this mighty sum
Of things forever speaking;
That nothing of itself will come;
But we must still be seeking?
〃… Then ask not wherefore; here; alone;
Conversing as I may;
I sit upon this old gray stone;
And dream my time away。〃
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
THE TABLES TURNED
An Evening Scene On The Same Subject
Up! up! my friend; and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my friend; and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun; above the mountain's head;
A freshening luster mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread;
His first sweet evening yellow。
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come; hear the woodland linnet;
How sweet his music! on my life
There's more of wisdom in it。
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He; too; is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things;
Let Nature be your teacher。
She has a world of ready wealth;
Our minds and hearts to bless …
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health;
Truth breathed by cheerfulness。
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man;
Of moral evil and of good;
Than all the sages can。
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things: …
We murder to dissect。
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth; and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives。
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
SIMPLE NATURE
Be it not mine to steal the cultured flower
From any garden of the rich and great;
Nor seek with care; through many a weary hour;
Some novel form of wonder to create。
Enough for me the leafy woods to rove;
And gather simple cups of morning dew;
Or; in the fields and meadows that I love;
Find beauty in their bells of every hue。
Thus round my cottage floats a fragrant air;
And though the rustic plot be humbly laid;
Yet; like the lilies gladly growing there;
I have not toiled; but take what God has made。
My Lord Ambition passed; and smiled in scorn;
I plucked a rose; and; lo! it had no thorn。
George John Romanes '1848…1894'
〃I FEAR NO POWER A WOMAN WIELDS〃
I fear no power a woman wields
While I can have the woods and fields;
With comradeship alone of gun;
Gray marsh…wastes and the burning sun。
For aye the heart's most poignant pain
Will wear away 'neath hail and rain;
And rush of winds through branches bare
With something still to do and dare; …
The lonely watch beside the shore;
The wild…fowl's cry; the sweep of oar;
The paths of virgin sky to scan
Untrod; and so uncursed by man。
Gramercy; for thy haunting face;
Thy charm of voice and lissome grace;
I fear no power a woman wields
While I can have the woods and fields。
Ernest McGaffey '1861…
A RUNNABLE STAG
When the pods went pop on the broom; green broom
And apples began to be golden…skinned;
We harbored a stag in the Priory coomb;
And we feathered his trail up…wind; up…wind;
We feathered his trail up…wind …
A stag of warrant; a stag; a stag;
A runnable stag; a kingly crop;
Brow; bay and tray and three on top;
A stag; a runnable stag。
Then the huntsman's horn rang yap; yap; yap;
And 〃Forwards〃 we heard the harborer shout;
But 'twas only a brocket that broke a gap
In the beechen underwood; driven out;
From the underwood antlered out
By warrant and might of the stag; the stag;
The runnable stag; whose lordly mind
Was bent on sleep; though beamed and tined
He stood; a runnable stag。
So we tufted the covert till afternoon
With Tinkerman's Pup and Bell…of…the…North;
And hunters were sulky and hounds out of tune
Before we tufted the right stag forth;
Before we tufted him forth;
The stag of warrant; the wily stag;
The runnable stag with his kingly crop;
Brow; bay and tray and three on top;
The royal and runnable stag。
It was Bell…of…the…North and Tinkerman's Pup
That stuck to the scent till the copse was drawn。
〃Tally ho! tally ho!〃 and the hunt was up;
The tufters whipped and the pack laid on;
The resolute pack laid on;
And the stag of warrant away at last;
The runnable stag; the same; the same;
His hoofs on fire; his horns like flame;
A stag; a runnable stag。
〃Let your gelding be: if you check or chide
He stumbles at once and you're out of the hunt;
For three hundred gentlemen; able to ride;
On hunters accustomed to bear the brunt;
Accustomed to bear the brunt;
Are after the runnable stag; the stag;
The runnable stag with his kingly crop
Brow; bay and tray and three on top;
The right; the runnable stag。〃
By perilous paths in coomb and dell;
The heather; the rocks; and the river…bed;
The pace grew hot; for the scent lay well;
And a runnable stag goes right ahead;
The quarry went right ahead …
Ahead; ahead; and fast and far;
His antlered crest; his cloven hoof;
Brow; bay and tray and three aloof;
The stag; the runnable stag。
For a matter of twenty miles and more;
By the densest hedge and the highest wall;
Through herds of bullocks he baffled the lore
Of harborer; huntsman; hounds and all;
Of harborer; hounds and all …
The stag of warrant; the wily stag;
For twenty miles; and five and five;
He ran; and he never was caught alive;
This stag; this runnable stag。
When he turned at bay in the leafy gloom;
In the emerald gloom where the brook ran deep;
He heard in the distance the rollers boom;
And he saw in a vision of peaceful sleep;
In a wonderful vision of sleep;
A stag of warrant; a stag; a stag;
A runnable stag in a jewelled bed;
Under the sheltering ocean dead;
A stag; a runnable stag。
So a fateful hope lit up his eye;
And he opened his nostrils wide again;
And he tossed his branching antlers high
As he headed the hunt down the Charloch glen;
As he raced down the echoing glen …
For five miles more; the stag; the stag;
For twenty miles; and five and five;
Not to be caught now; dead or alive;
The stag; the runnable stag。
Three hundred gentlemen; able to ride;
Three hundred horses as gallant and free;
Beheld him escape on the evening tide;
Far out till he sank in the Severn Sea;
Till he sank in the depths of the sea …
The stag; the buoyant stag; the stag
That slept at last in a jewelled bed
Under the sheltering ocean spread;
The stag; the runnable stag。
John Davidson '1857…1909'
HUNTING…SONG
From 〃King Arthur〃
Oh; who would stay indoor; indoor;
When the horn is on the hill? (Bugle: Tarantara!
With the crisp air stinging; and the huntsmen singing;
And a ten…tined buck to kill!
Before the sun goes down; goes down;
We shall slay the buck of ten; (Bugle: Tarantara!
And the priest shall say benison; and we shall ha'e venison;
When we come home again。
Let him that loves his ease; his ease;
Keep close and house him fair; (Bugle: Tarantara!
He'll still be a stranger to the merry thrill of danger
And the joy of the open air。
But he that loves the hills; the hills;
Let him come out to…day! (Bugle: Tarantara!
For the horses are neighing; and the hounds are baying;
And the hunt's up; and away!
Richard Hovey '1864…1900'
〃A…HUNTING WE WILL GO〃
From 〃Don Quixote in England〃
The dusky night rides down the sky;
And ushers in the morn;
The hounds all join in glorious cry;
The huntsman winds his horn。
And a…hunting we will go。
The wife around her husband throws
Her arms to make him stay;
〃My dear; it rains; it hails; it blows;
You cannot hunt to…day。〃
Yet a…hunting we will go。
Away they fly to 'scape the rout;
Their steeds they soundly switch;
Some are thrown in; and some thrown out;
And some thrown in the ditch。
Yet a…hunting we will go。
Sly Reynard now like lightning flies;
And sweeps across the vale;
And when the hounds too near he spies;
He drops his bushy tail。
Then a…hunting we will go。
Fond Echo seems to like the sport;
And join the jovial cry;
The woods; the hills; the sound retort;
And music fills the sky;
When a…hunting we do go。
At last his strength to faintness worn;
Poor Reynard ceases flight;
Then hungry; homeward we return;
To feast away the night。
And a…drinking we do go。
Ye jovial hunters; in the morn
Prepare then for the chase;
Rise at the sounding of the horn
And health with sport embrace;
When a…hunting we do go。
Henry Fielding '1707…1754'
THE ANGLER'S INVITATION
Come when the leaf comes; angle with me;
Come when the bee hums over the lea;
Come with the wild flowers …
Come with the wild showers …
Come w
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