第 9 节
作者:僻处自说      更新:2021-02-21 12:01      字数:9322
  eyelids love the dark Where never a light peeps through。
  What!open…eyed; my dears? Thinking your hearts will break。 There's
  nothing; nothing; nothing; I say; That's worth the lying awake!
  I learned it in my youth… Love I was dreaming of! I learned it from the
  needle…work That took the place of love。 I learned it from the years And
  what   they   brought   about;   》From   song;   and   from   the   hills   of   joy  Where
  sorrow sought me out。
  It's good   to   dream and   turn; And turn   and   dream; or   fall To   comfort
  with my pack of bones; And know of nothing at all!
  Yes;  never   know   at   all!   If   prowlers   mew   or   bark;   Nor   wonder   if   it's
  three o'clock Or four o'clock of the dark。
  When     the   longer   shades    have   fallen   And    the  last  weariness    Has
  brought the sweetest gift of life; The last forgetfulness。
  If a sound as of old leaves Stir the last bed I keep; Then say; my dears:
  〃It's old Lizette… She's turning in her sleep!〃
  AGNES LEE
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  MOTHERHOOD
  MARY;  the   Christ   long slain;  passed   silently。  Following the   children
  joyously   astir   Under   the   cedrus   and   the   olive   tree;   Pausing   to   let   their
  laughter float to her。 Each voice an echo of a voice more dear; She saw a
  little Christ in every face; When lo; another woman; gliding near; Yearned
  o'er   the   tender   life   that   filled   the   place。 And   Mary   sought   the   woman's
  hand; and spoke: 〃I know thee not; yet know thy memory tossed With all a
  thousand dreams their eyes evoke Who bring to thee a child beloved and
  lost。
  〃I; too; have rocked my little one; O; He was fair! Yea; fairer than the
  fairest sun; And like its rays through amber spun His sun…bright hair。 Still I
  can see it shine and shine。〃 〃Even so;〃 the woman said;〃was mine。〃
  〃His ways were ever darling ways;〃… And Mary smiled; 〃So soft; so
  clinging! Glad relays Of love were all His precious days。 My little child!
  My infinite star!     My music fled!〃 〃Even so was mine;〃 the woman said。
  Then whispered Mary: 〃Tell me; thou; Of thine。〃 And she: 〃O;  mine
  was rosy as a boug
  Blooming   with   roses;   sent;   somehow;   To   bloom   for   me!   His   balmy
  fingers left a thrill Within my breast that warms me still。〃
  Then gazed she down some wilder; darker hour; And said; when Mary
  questioned; knowing not; 〃Who art thou; mother of so sweet a flower?〃 〃I
  am the mother of Iscariot。〃
  AGNES LEE
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  ESSEX
  I
  THY hills are kneeling in the tardy spring; And wait; in supplication's
  gentleness; The certain resurrection that shall bring A robe of verdure for
  their   nakedness。   Thy   perfumed   valleys   where   the   twilights   dwell;   Thy
  fields within the sunlight's living coil
  Now promise; while the veins of nature swell; Eternal recompense to
  human   toil。 And   when   the   sunset's   final   shades   depart   The   aspiration   to
  completed birth Is sweet and silent; as the soft tears start; We know how
  wanton   and   how   little   worth Are   all   the   passions   of   our   bleeding   heart
  That vex the awful patience of the earth。
  II
  Thine are the large winds and the splendid sun Glutting the spread of
  heaven to the floor Of waters rhythmic from far shore to shore; And thine
  the stars;  revealing   one by  one; Thine the  grave; lucent   night's oblivion;
  The   tawny   moon   that   waits   below   the   skies;   Strange   as   the   dawn   that
  smote their blistered eyes Who watched from Calvary when the Deed was
  done。 And thine the good brown earth that bares its breast To thy benign
  October; thine the trees Lusty with fruitage in the late year's rest;
  And thine the men whos@ blood has glorified Thy name with Liberty
  Is divine decrees… The men who loved thy soil and fought and died。 III
  Toward thine Eastern window when the morn Steals through the silver
  mesh   of   silent   stars;   I   come   unlaurelled   from  the   strenuous   wars   Where
  men have fought and wept and died Forlorn。
  But here; across the early fields of corn; The living silence dwelleth;
  and the gray Sweet earth…mist; while afar the lisp of spray Breathes from
  the ocean like a Triton's horn。 Open   thy lattice; for the gage is won For
  which this earth has journeyed though the dust Of shattered systems; cold
  about the sun; And proved by sin; by mighty lives impearled; A voice cries
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  through the sunrise: 〃Time is Just!〃 And falls like dew God's pity on the
  world
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  GEORGE CABOT LODGE
  I
  THE SONG OF THE WAVE This is the song of the wave! The mighty
  one! Child of the soul of silence; beating the air to sound: White as a live
  terror; as a drawn sword; This is the wave。
  II
  This   is   the   song   of   the   wave;   the   white…maned   steed   of the Tempest
  Whose veins are swollen with life; In whose flanks abide the four winds。
  This is the wave。
  III
  This is the song of the wave!      The dawn leaped out of the sea And the
  waters lay smooth as a silver shield; And the sun…rays smote on the waters
  like a golden sword。 Then a wind blew out of the morning And the waters
  rustled And the wave was born!
  IV This is the song of the wave! The wind blew out of the noon
  And   the   white   sea…birds like driven   foam Winged in   from  the   ocean
  that lay beyond the sky And the face of the waters was barred with white;
  For the wave had many brothers; And the wave was strong!
  V
  This is the song of the wave! The wind blew out of the sunset And the
  west was lurid as Hell。 The black clouds closed like a tomb; for the sun
  was dead。 Then the wind smote full as the breath of God; And the wave
  called to its brothers; 〃This is the crest of life!〃
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  VI
  This is the song of the wave; that rises to fall; Rises a sheer green wall
  like a barrier of glass That has caught the soul of the moonlight。 Caught
  and   prisoned   the   moon…beams;   Its   edge   is   frittered   to   foam。   This   is   the
  wave!
  VII
  This is the song of the wave; of the wave that falls… Wild as a burst of
  day…gold blown through the colours of morning It shivers to infinite atoms
  up the rumbling steep of sand。 This is the wave。
  VIII
  This   is   the   song   of   the   wave   that   died   in   the   fullness   of   life。   The
  prodigal this; that lavished its largess of strength In the lust of attainment。
  Aiming   at   things   for   Heaven   too   high;   Sure   in   the   pride   of   life;   in   the
  richness   of   strength。   So   tried   it   the   impossible   height;   till   the   end   was
  found: Where ends the soul that yearns for the fillet of morning stars; The
  soul   in   the   toils   of   the   journeying   worlds;   Whose   eye   is   filled   with   the
  Image of God; And the end is Death!
  GEORGE CABOT LODGE
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  FRIMAIRE
  DEAREST; we are like two flowers Blooming in the garden; A purple
  aster flower and a red one Standing alone in a withered desolation。
  The   garden   plants   are   shattered   and   seeded;   One   brittle   leaf   scrapes
  against another; Fiddling echoes of a rush of petals。 Now only you and I
  nodding together。
  Many   were   with   us;   they   have   all   faded。   Only   we   are   purple   and
  crimson; Only we in the dew…clear mornings; Smarten into color as the sun
  rises。
  When I scarcely see you in the flat moonlight; And later when my cold
  roots tighten; I am anxious for morning; I cannot rest in fear of what