第 15 节
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僻处自说 更新:2021-02-21 12:02 字数:5737
flooding sea upon the sands; And quenches starlight overhead。
Long have they slept。 Their separate dust Has mingled with a nameless
mould。 Only the slower…crumbling stones Still tell so much as may be told。
And now in shoreless fog adrift Like some lone mariner gliding by; I
lean above the drowning graves And wonder when I too shall lie
Where evermore the tides of night And earth will hide my lonely rest;
And Time will bid my love forget To read the stone upon my breast。
G。 O。 WARREN
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BEAUTY
NOT flesh alone am I; when I can be So swiftly caught in Beauty's
shimmering thread Whose slender fibres; woven; held by me; With their
frail strength my following heart have led。
Yea; not all mortal; not all death my mind; When; watching by lone
twilight waters' brim I tremblingly decipher; as they wind; Her deathless
hieroglyphs; though strange and dim。
So for this faith; when Thou my dust shalt bring To dust; remember
well; Great Alchemist; Yearly to change my wintry earth to spring; That I
with Beauty still may keep my tryst。
G。 O。 WARREN
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COMRADES
WHERE are the friends that I knew in my Maying; In the days of my
youth; in the first of my roaming? We were dear; we were leal; O; far we
went straying; Now never a heart to my heart comes homing! Where is
he now; the dark boy slender Who taught me bare…back; stirrup and reins?
I love him; he loved me; my beautiful; tender Tamer of horses on grass…
grown plains。
Where is he now whose eyes swam brighter; Softer than love; in his
turbulent charms; Who taught me to strike; and to fall; dear fighter; And
gather me up in his boyhood arms; Taught me the rifle; and with me went
riding; Suppled my limbs to the horseman's war; Where is he now; for
whom my heart's biding; Biding; bidingbut he rides far!
O love that passes the love of woman! Who that hath felt it shall ever
forget When the breath of life with a throb turns human; And a lad's heart
is to a lad's heart set? Ever; forever; lover and rover They shall cling; nor
each from other shall part Till the reign of the stars in the heavens be 'over;
And life is dust in each faithful heart。
They are dead; the American grasses under; There is no one now who
presses my side; By the African chotts I am riding asunder; And with great
joy ride I the last great ride。 I am fey; I am fein of sudden dying;
Thousands of miles there is no one near; And my heartall the night it is
crying; crying In the bosoms of dead lads darling…dear。
Hearts of my musicthem dark earth covers; Comrades to die; and to
die for; were they; In the width of the world there were no such rovers
Back to back; breast to breast; it was ours to stay; And the highest on earth
was the vow that we cherished; To spur forth from the crowd and come
back never more; And to ride in the track of great souls perished Till the
nests of the lark shall roof us o'er。
Yet lingers a horseman on Altai highlands; Who hath joy of me; riding
the Tartar glissade; And one; far faring o'er orient islands Whose blood yet
glints with my blade's accolade; North; west; east; I fling you my last
hallooing; Last love to the breasts where my own has bled; Through the
reach of the desert my soul leaps pursuing My star where it rises a Star of
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the Dead。
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
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THE FLIGHT
I
O WILD HEART; track the land's perfume; Beach…roses and moor…
heather! All fragrances of herb and bloom Fail; out at sea; together。 O
follow where aloft find room Lark…song and eagle…feather! All ecstasies of
throat and plume Melt; high on yon blue weather。
O leave on sky and ocean lost The flight creation dareth; Take wings
of love; that mounts the most: Find fame; that furthest fareth! Thy flight;
albeit amid her host Thee; too; night star…like beareth; Flying; thy breast on
heaven's coast; The infinite outweareth。
II
〃Dead o'er us roll celestial fires; Mute stand Earth's ancient beaches;
Old thoughts; old instincts; old desires; The passing hour outreaches; The
soul creative never tires Evokes; adcres; beseeches; And that heart most
the god inspires Whom most its wildness teaches。
〃For I will course through falling years And stars and cities burning;
And I will march through dying cheers Past empires unreturning; Ever the
world flame reappears Where mankind power is earning; The nations'
hopes; the people's tears; One with the wild heart yearning。
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
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