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the home book of verse-3-第51部分
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Beyond; the fields are full in view;
Heavy in herbage and in dew;
The great…eyed kine browse thankfully;
Come; take the footpath way with me!
This stile; where country lovers tryst;
Where many a man and maid have kissed;
Invites us sweetly; and the wood
Beckons us to her solitude。
Leave men and lumbering wains behind;
And dusty roads; all blank and blind;
Come tread on velvet and on silk;
Damasked with daisies; white as milk。
Those dryads of the wood; that some
Call the wild hyacinths; now are come;
And hold their revels in a night
Of emerald flecked with candle…light。
The fountains of the meadows play;
This is the wild bee's holiday;
When summer…snows have sweetly dressed
The pasture like a wedding…guest;
By fields of beans that shall eclipse
The honey on the rose's lips;
With woodruff and the new hay's breath;
And wild thyme sweetest in her death;
Skirting the rich man's lawn and hall;
The footpath way is free to all;
For us his pinks and roses blow:
Fling him thanksgiving ere we go!
By orchards yet in rosy veils;
By hidden nests of nightingales;
Through lonesome valleys where all day
The rabbit people scurry and play;
The footpath sets her tender lure。
This is the country for the poor;
The high…road seeks the crowded sea;
Come; take the footpath way with me!
Katherine Tynan Hinkson '1861…1931'
A MAINE TRAIL
Come follow; heart upon your sleeve;
The trail; a…teasing by;
Past tasseled corn and fresh…mown hay;
Trim barns and farm…house shy;
Past hollyhocks and white well…sweep;
Through pastures bare and wild;
Oh come; let's fare to the heart…o'…the…wood
With the faith of a little child。
Strike in by the gnarled way through the swamp
Where late the laurel shone;
An intimate close where you meet yourself
And come unto your own;
By bouldered brook to the hidden spring
Where breath of ferns blows sweet
And swift birds break the silence as
Their shadows cross your feet。
Stout…hearted thrust through gold…green copse
To garner the woodland glee;
To weave a garment of warm delight;
Of sunspun ecstasy;
'Twill shield you all winter from frosty eyes;
'Twill shield your heart from cold;
Such greens! … how the Lord Himself loves green!
Such sun! … how He loves the gold!
Then on till flaming fireweed
Is quenched in forest deep;
Tread soft! The sumptuous paven moss
Is spread for Dryads sleep;
And list ten thousand thousand spruce
Lift up their voice to God …
We can a little understand;
Born of the self…same sod。
Oh come; the welcoming trees lead on;
Their guests are we to…day;
Shy violets smile; proud branches bow;
Gay mushrooms mark the way;
The silence is a courtesy;
The well…bred calm of kings;
Come haste! the hour sets its face
Unto great Happenings。
Gertrude Huntington McGiffert '18…
AFOOT
Comes the lure of green things growing;
Comes the call of waters flowing …
And the wayfarer desire
Moves and wakes and would be going。
Hark the migrant hosts of June
Marching nearer noon by noon!
Hark the gossip of the grasses
Bivouacked beneath the moon!
Long the quest and far the ending
When my wayfarer is wending …
When desire is once afoot;
Doom behind and dream attending!
In his ears the phantom chime
Of incommunicable rhyme;
He shall chase the fleeting camp…fires
Of the Bedouins of Time。
Farer by uncharted ways;
Dumb as death to plaint or praise;
Unreturning he shall journey;
Fellow to the nights and days;
Till upon the outer bar
Stilled the moaning currents are;
Till the flame achieves the zenith;
Till the moth attains the star;
Till through laughter and through tears
Fair the final peace appears;
And about the watered pastures
Sink to sleep the nomad years!
Charles G。 D。 Roberts '1860…
FROM ROMANY TO ROME
Upon the road to Romany
It's stay; friend; stay!
There's lots o' love and lots o' time
To linger on the way;
Poppies for the twilight;
Roses for the noon;
It's happy goes as lucky goes
To Romany in June。
But on the road to Rome … oh;
It's march; man; march!
The dust is on the chariot wheels;
The sere is on the larch;
Helmets and javelins
And bridles flecked with foam …
The flowers are dead; the world's ahead
Upon the road to Rome。
But on the road to Rome … ah;
It's fight; man; fight!
Footman and horseman
Treading left and right;
Camp…fires and watch…fires
Ruddying the gloam …
The fields are gray and worn away
Along the road to Rome。
Upon the road to Romany
It's sing; boys; sing!
Though rag and pack be on our back
We'll whistle to the King。
Wine is in the sunshine;
Madness in the moon;
And de'il may care the road we fare
To Romany in June。
Along the road to Rome; alas!
The glorious dust is whirled;
Strong hearts are fierce to see
The City of the World;
Yet footfall or bugle…call
Or thunder as ye will;
Upon the road to Romany
The birds are calling still!
Wallace Irwin '1875…
THE TOIL OF THE TRAIL
What have I gained by the toil of the trail?
I know and know well。
I have found once again the lore I had lost
In the loud city's hell。
I have broadened my hand to the cinch and the axe;
I have laid my flesh to the rain;
I was hunter and trailer and guide;
I have touched the most primitive wildness again。
I have threaded the wild with the stealth of the deer;
No eagle is freer than I;
No mountain can thwart me; no torrent appall;
I defy the stern sky。
So long as I live these joys will remain;
I have touched the most primitive wildness again。
Hamlin Garland '1860…
DO YOU FEAR THE WIND?
Do you fear the force of the wind;
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them;
Be savage again。
Go hungry and cold like the wolf;
Go wade like the crane:
The palms of your hands will thicken;
The skin of your cheek will tan;
You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy;
But you'll walk like a man!
Hamlin Garland '1860…
THE KING'S HIGHWAY
〃El Camino Real〃
All in the golden weather; forth let us ride to…day;
You and I together; on the King's Highway;
The blue skies above us; and below the shining sea;
There's many a road to travel; but it's this road for me。
It's a long road and sunny; and the fairest in the world …
There are peaks that rise above it in their snowy mantles curled;
And it leads from the mountains through a hedge of chaparral;
Down to the waters where the sea gulls call。
It's a long road and sunny; it's a long road and old;
And the brown padres made it for the flocks of the fold;
They made it for the sandals of the sinner…folk that trod
From the fields in the open to the shelter…house of God。
They made it for the sandals of the sinner…folk of old;
Now the flocks they are scattered and death keeps the fold;
But you and I together we will take the road to…day;
With the breath in our nostrils; on the King's Highway。
We will take the road together through the morning's golden glow;
And we'll dream of those who trod it in the mellowed long ago;
We will stop at the Missions where the sleeping padres lay;
And we'll bend a knee above them for their souls' sake to pray。
We'll ride through the valleys where the blossom's on the tree;
Through the orchards and the meadows with the bird and the bee;
And we'll take the rising hills where the manzanitas grow;
Past the gray tails of waterfalls where blue violets blow。
Old Conquistadores; O brown priests and all;
Give us your ghosts for company when night begins to fall;
There's many a road to travel; but it's this road to…day;
With the breath of God about us on the King's Highway。
John S。 McGroarty '1862…
THE FORBIDDEN LURE
〃Leave all and follow … follow!〃
Lure of the sun at dawn;
Lure of a wind…paced hollow;
Lure of the stars withdrawn;
Lure of the brave old singing
Brave perished minstrels knew;
Of dreams like sea…fog clinging
To boughs the night sifts through:
〃Leave all and follow … follow!〃
The sun goes up the day;
Flickering wing of swallow;
Blossoms that blow away; …
What would you; luring; luring;
When I must bide at home?
My heart will break her mooring
And die in reef…flung foam!
Oh; I must never listen;
Call not outside my door。
Green leaves; you must not glisten
Like water; any more。
Oh; Beauty; wandering Beauty;
Pass by; speak not。 For see;
By bed and board stands Duty
To snatch my dreams from me!
Fannie Stearns Davis '1884…
THE WANDER…LOVERS
Down the world with Marna!
That's the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind;
Vagabond and unconfined!
Roving with the roving rain
Its unboundaried domain!
Kith and kin of wander…kind;
Children of the sea!
Petrels of the sea…drift!
Swallows of the lea!
Arabs of the whole wide girth
Of the wind…encircled earth!
In all climes we pitch our tents;
Cronies of the elements;
With the secret lords of birth
Intimate and free。
All the seaboard knows us
From Fundy to the Keys;
Every bend and every creek
Of abundant Chesapeake;
Ardise hills and Newport coves
And the far…off orange groves;
Where Floridian oceans break;
Tropic tiger seas。
Down the world with Marna;
Tarrying there and here!
Just as much at home in Spain
As in Tangier or Touraine!
Shakespeare's Avon knows us well;
And the crags of Neufchatel;
And the ancient Nile is fain
Of our coming near。
Down the world with Marna;
Daughter of the air!
Marna of the subtle grace;
And the vision in her face!
Moving in the measures trod
By the angels before God!
With her sky…blue eyes amaze
And her sea…blue hair!
Marna with the trees' life
In her v
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