第 4 节
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老是不进球 更新:2021-02-19 17:49 字数:9322
Pactolus…like flow deep and rich along;
An Austral Shakespeare rise; whose living page
To nature true may charm in ev'ry age;
And that an Austral Pindar daring soar;
Where not the Theban eagle reach'd before。
And; O Britannia! shouldst thou cease to ride
Despotic Empress of old Ocean's tide;
Should thy tamed Lion spent his former might;
No longer roar the terror of the fight;
Should e'er arrive that dark disastrous hour;
When bow'd by luxury; thou yield'st to pow'r;
When thou; no longer freest of the free;
To some proud victor bend'st the vanquish'd knee;
May all thy glories in another sphere
Relume; and shine more brightly still than here;
May this; thy last…born infant; then arise;
To glad thy heart and greet thy parent eyes;
And Australasia float; with flag unfurl'd;
A new Britannia in another world。
Charles Harpur。
Love
She loves me! From her own bliss…breathing lips
The live confession came; like rich perfume
From crimson petals bursting into bloom!
And still my heart at the remembrance skips
Like a young lion; and my tongue; too; trips
As drunk with joy! while every object seen
In life's diurnal round wears in its mien
A clear assurance that no doubts eclipse。
And if the common things of nature now
Are like old faces flushed with new delight;
Much more the consciousness of that rich vow
Deepens the beauteous; and refines the bright;
While throned I seem on love's divinest height
'Mid all the glories glowing round its brow。
Words
Words are deeds。 The words we hear
May revolutionize or rear
A mighty state。 The words we read
May be a spiritual deed
Excelling any fleshly one;
As much as the celestial sun
Transcends a bonfire; made to throw
A light upon some raree…show。
A simple proverb tagged with rhyme
May colour half the course of time;
The pregnant saying of a sage
May influence every coming age;
A song in its effects may be
More glorious than Thermopylae;
And many a lay that schoolboys scan
A nobler feat than Inkerman。
A Coast View
High 'mid the shelves of a grey cliff; that yet
Riseth in Babylonian mass above;
In a benched cleft; as in the mouldered chair
Of grey…beard Time himself; I sit alone;
And gaze with a keen wondering happiness
Out o'er the sea。 Unto the circling bend
That verges Heaven; a vast luminous plain
It stretches; changeful as a lover's dream
Into great spaces mapped by light and shade
In constant interchange either 'neath clouds
The billows darken; or they shimmer bright
In sunny scopes of measureless expanse。
'Tis Ocean dreamless of a stormy hour;
Calm; or but gently heaving; yet; O God!
What a blind fate…like mightiness lies coiled
In slumber; under that wide…shining face!
While o'er the watery gleam there where its edge
Banks the dim vacancy; the topmost sails
Of some tall ship; whose hull is yet unseen;
Hang as if clinging to a cloud that still
Comes rising with them from the void beyond;
Like to a heavenly net; drawn from the deep
And carried upward by ethereal hands。
William Forster。
‘The Love in her Eyes lay Sleeping'
The love in her eyes lay sleeping;
As stars that unconscious shine;
Till; under the pink lids peeping;
I wakened it up with mine;
And we pledged our troth to a brimming oath
In a bumper of blood…red wine。
Alas! too well I know
That it happened long ago;
Those memories yet remain;
And sting; like throbs of pain;
And I'm alone below;
But still the red wine warms; and the rosy goblets glow;
If love be the heart's enslaver;
'Tis wine that subdues the head。
But which has the fairest flavour;
And whose is the soonest shed?
Wine waxes in power in that desolate hour
When the glory of love is dead。
Love lives on beauty's ray;
But night comes after day;
And when the exhausted sun
His high career has run;
The stars behind him stay;
And then the light that lasts consoles our darkening way。
When beauty and love are over;
And passion has spent its rage;
And the spectres of memory hover;
And glare on life's lonely stage;
'Tis wine that remains to kindle the veins
And strengthen the steps of age。
Love takes the taint of years;
And beauty disappears;
But wine in worth matures
The longer it endures;
And more divinely cheers;
And ripens with the suns and mellows with the spheres。
James Lionel Michael。
‘Through Pleasant Paths'
Through pleasant paths; through dainty ways;
Love leads my feet;
Where beauty shines with living rays;
Soft; gentle; sweet;
The placid heart at random strays;
And sings; and smiles; and laughs and plays;
And gathers from the summer days
Their light and heat;
That in its chambers burn and blaze
And beam and beat。
I throw myself among the ferns
Under the shade;
And watch the summer sun that burns
On dell and glade;
To thee; my dear; my fancy turns;
In thee its Paradise discerns;
For thee it sighs; for thee it yearns;
My chosen maid;
And that still depth of passion learns
Which cannot fade。
The wind that whispers in the night;
Subtle and free;
The gorgeous noonday's blinding light;
On hill and tree;
All lovely things that meet my sight;
All shifting lovelinesses bright;
Speak to my heart with calm delight;
Seeming to be
Cloth'd with enchantment; robed in white;
To sing of thee。
The ways of life are hard and cold
To one alone;
Bitter the strife for place and gold
We weep and groan:
But when love warms the heart grows bold;
And when our arms the prize enfold;
Dearest! the heart can hardly hold
The bliss unknown;
Unspoken; never to be told
My own; my own!
Personality
〃Death is to us change; not consummation。〃
Heart of Midlothian。
A change! no; surely; not a change;
The change must be before we die;
Death may confer a wider range;
From pole to pole; from sea to sky;
It cannot make me new or strange
To mine own Personality!
For what am I? this mortal flesh;
These shrinking nerves; this feeble frame;
For ever racked with ailments fresh
And scarce from day to day the same
A fly within the spider's mesh;
A moth that plays around the flame!
THIS is not I within such coil
The immortal spirit rests awhile:
When this shall lie beneath the soil;
Which its mere mortal parts defile;
THAT shall for ever live and foil
Mortality; and pain; and guile。
Whatever Time may make of me
Eternity must see me still
Clear from the dross of earth; and free
From every stain of every ill;
Yet still; where…e'er what…e'er I be;
Time's work Eternity must fill。
When all the worlds have ceased to roll;
When the long light has ceased to quiver
When we have reached our final goal
And stand beside the Living River;
This vital spark this loving soul;
Must last for ever and for ever。
To choose what I must be is mine;
Mine in these few and fleeting days;
I may be if I will; divine;
Standing before God's throne in praise;
Through all Eternity to shine
In yonder Heaven's sapphire blaze。
Father; the soul that counts it gain
To love Thee and Thy law on earth;
Unchanged but free from mortal stain;
Increased in knowledge and in worth;
And purified from this world's pain;
Shall find through Thee a second birth。
A change! no surely not a change!
The change must be before we die;
Death may confer a wider range
From world to world; from sky to sky;
It cannot make me new or strange
To mine own Personality!
Daniel Henry Deniehy。
Love in a Cottage
A cottage small be mine; with porch
Enwreathed with ivy green;
And brightsome flowers with dew…filled bells;
'Mid brown old wattles seen。
And one to wait at shut of eve;
With eyes as fountain clear;
And braided hair; and simple dress;
My homeward step to hear。
On summer eves to sing old songs;
And talk o'er early vows;
While stars look down like angels' eyes
Amid the leafy boughs。
When Spring flowers peep from flossy cells;
And bright…winged parrots call;
In forest paths be ours to rove
Till purple evenings fall。
The curtains closed; by taper clear
To read some page divine;
On winter nights; the hearth beside;
Her soft; warm hand in mine。
And so to glide through busy life;
Like some small brook alone;
That winds its way 'mid grassy knolls;
Its music all its own。
A Song for the Night
O the Night; the Night; the solemn Night;
When Earth is bound with her silent zone;
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