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the home book of verse-3-第49部分
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Come with the wild flowers …
Come with the wild showers …
Come when the singing bird calleth for thee!
Then to the stream side; gladly we'll hie;
Where the gray trout glide silently by;
Or in some still place
Over the hill face
Hurrying onward; drop the light fly。
Then; when the dew falls; homeward we'll speed
To our own loved walls down on the mead;
There; by the bright hearth;
Holding our night mirth;
We'll drink to sweet friendship in need and in deed。
Thomas Tod Stoddart '1810…1880'
THE ANGLER'S WISH
From 〃The Complete Angler〃
I in these flowery mends would be;
These crystal streams should solace me;
To whose harmonious bubbling noise
I; with my angle; would rejoice;
Sit here; and see the turtle…dove
Court his chaste mate to acts of love;
Or; on that bank; feel the west…wind
Breathe health and plenty; please my mind;
To see sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers;
And then washed off by April showers;
Here; hear my Kenna sing a song:
There; see a blackbird feed her young;
Or a laverock build her nest;
Here; give my weary spirits rest;
And raise my low…pitched thoughts above
Earth; or what poor mortals love:
Thus; free from lawsuits; and the noise
Of princes' courts; I would rejoice;
Or; with my Bryan and a book;
Loiter long days near Shawford brook;
There sit by him; and eat my meat;
There see the sun both rise and set;
There bid good morning to next day;
There meditate my time away;
And angle on; and beg to have
A quiet passage to a welcome grave。
Izaak Walton '1593…1683'
THE ANGLER
In 〃The Complete Angler〃
O the gallant fisher's life;
It is the best of any!
'Tis full of pleasure; void of strife;
And 'tis beloved by many;
Other joys
Are but toys;
Only this
Lawful is;
For our skill
Breeds no ill;
But content and pleasure。
In a morning; up we rise;
Ere Aurora's peeping;
Drink a cup to wash our eyes;
Leave the sluggard sleeping;
Then we go
To and fro;
With our knacks
At our backs;
To such streams
As the Thames;
If we have the leisure。
When we please to walk abroad
For our recreation;
In the fields is our abode;
Full of delectation;
Where; in a brook;
With a hook; …
Or a lake; …
Fish we take;
There we sit;
For a bit;
Till we fish entangle。
We have gentles in a horn;
We have paste and worms too;
We can watch both night and morn;
Suffer rain and storms too;
None do here
Use to swear:
Oaths do fray
Fish away;
We sit still;
Watch our quill:
Fishers must not wrangle。
If the sun's excessive heat
Make our bodies swelter;
To an osier hedge we get;
For a friendly shelter;
Where; in a dike;
Perch or pike;
Roach or dace;
We do chase;
Bleak or gudgeon;
Without grudging;
We are still contented。
Or we sometimes pass an hour
Under a green willow;
That defends us from a shower;
Making earth our pillow;
Where we may
Think and pray;
Before death
Stops our breath;
Other joys
Are but toys;
And to be lamented。
John Chalkhill 'fl。 1648'
WANDERLUST
TO JANE: THE INVITATION
Best and Brightest; come away!
Fairer far than this fair day;
Which; like thee; to those in sorrow;
Comes to bid a sweet good…morrow
To the rough year just awake
In its cradle on the brake。
The brightest hour of unborn Spring
Through the winter wandering;
Found; it seems; the halcyon morn
To hoar February born;
Bending from Heaven; in azure mirth;
It kissed the forehead of the earth;
And smiled upon the silent sea;
And bade the frozen streams be free;
And waked to music all their fountains;
And breathed upon the frozen mountains;
And like a prophetess of May
Strewed flowers upon the barren way;
Making the wintry world appear
Like one on whom thou smilest; Dear。
Away; away; from men and towns;
To the wild wood and the downs …
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music; lest it should not find
An echo in another's mind;
While the touch of Nature's art
Harmonizes heart to heart。
I leave this notice on my door
For each accustomed visitor: …
〃I am gone into the fields
To take what this sweet hour yields; …
Reflection; you may come to…morrow;
Sit by the fireside with Sorrow。 …
You with the unpaid bill; Despair; …
You tiresome verse…reciter; Care; …
I will pay you in the grave; …
Death will listen to your stave。
Expectation too; be off!
To…day is for itself enough;
Hope; in pity mock not Woe
With smiles; nor follow where I go;
Long having lived on thy sweet food;
At length I find one moment's good
Alter long pain … with all your love;
This you never told me of。〃
Radiant Sister of the Day
Awake! arise! and come away!
To the wild woods and the plains;
To the pools where winter rains
Image all their roof of leaves;
Where the pine its garland weaves
Of sapless green; and ivy dun;
Round sterns that never kiss the sun。
Where the lawns and pastures be;
And the sandhills of the sea; …
Where the melting hoar…frost wets
The daisy…star that never sets;
And wind…flowers; and violets;
Which yet join not scent to hue;
Crown the pale year weak and new;
When the night is left behind
In the deep east; dun and blind;
And the blue noon is over us;
And the multitudinous
Billows murmur at our feet;
Where the earth and ocean meet;
And all things seem only one
In the universal sun。
Percy Bysshe Shelley '1792…1822'
〃MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS〃
My heart's in the Highlands; my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a…chasing the deer;
A…chasing the wild deer; and following the roe; …
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go。
Farewell to the Highlands; farewell to the North;
The birthplace of valor; the country of worth;
Wherever I wander; wherever I rove;
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love。
Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and wild…hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud…pouring floods。
My heart's in the Highlands; my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a…chasing the deer;
A…chasing the wild deer; and following the roe; …
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go。
Robert Burns '1759…1796'
〃AFAR IN THE DESERT〃
Afar in the desert I love to ride;
With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。
When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast;
And; sick of the present; I cling to the past;
When the eye is suffused with regretful tears;
From the fond recollections of former years;
And shadows of things that have long since fled
Flit over the brain; like the ghosts of the dead:
Bright visions of glory that vanished too soon;
Day…dreams that departed ere manhood's noon;
Attachments by fate or falsehood reft;
Companions of early days lost or left …
And my native land … whose magical name
Thrills to the heart like electric flame;
The home of my childhood; the haunts of my prime;
All the passions and scenes of that rapturous time
When the feelings were young; and the world was new;
Like the fresh bowers of Eden unfolding to view;
All … all now forsaken … forgotten … foregone!
And I … a lone exile remembered of none …
My high aims abandoned; … my good acts undone …
Aweary of all that is under the sun …
With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan;
I fly to the desert afar from man。
Afar in the desert I love to ride;
With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side;
When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life;
With its scenes of oppression; corruption; and strife …
The proud man's frown; and the base man's fear …
The scorner's laugh; and the sufferer's tear …
And malice; and meanness; and falsehood; and folly;
Dispose me to musing and dark melancholy;
When my bosom is full; and my thoughts are high;
And my soul is sick with the bondman's sigh …
Oh! then there is freedom; and joy; and pride;
Afar in the desert alone to ride!
There is rapture to vault on the champing steed;
And to bound away with the eagle's speed;
With the death…fraught firelock in my hand …
The only law of the Desert Land!
Afar in the desert I love to ride;
With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。
Away … away from the dwellings of men;
By the wild deer's haunt; by the buffalo's glen;
By valleys remote where the oribi plays;
Where the gnu; the gazelle; and the hartebeest graze;
And the kudu and eland unhunted recline
By the skirts of gray forest o'erhung with wild vine:
Where the elephant browses at peace in his wood;
And the river…horse gambols unscared in the flood;
And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will
In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill。
Afar in the desert I love to ride;
With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。
O'er the brown karroo; where the bleating cry
Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively:
And the timorous quagga's shrill whistling neigh
Is heard by the fountain at twilight gray;
Where the zebra wantonly tosses his mane;
With wild hoof scouring the desolate plain;
And the fleet…footed ostrich over the waste
Speeds like a horseman who travels in haste;
Hieing away to the home of her rest;
Where she and her mate have scooped their nest;
Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view
In the pathless depths of the parched karroo。
Afar in the desert I love to ride;
With the silent Bush…boy alone by my side。
Away … away … in the wilderness vast
Where the white man's foot hath never passed;
And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan
Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan:
A region of emptiness; howling and drear;
Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear;
Which the snake and the lizard inhabit
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