第 210 节
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  A panic terror spread unto the hindmost of the throng。
  Together with these two good knights; the champions of the sky;
  The Christians rallied and began to smite full sore and high;
  The Moors raised up their voices and by the Koran swore
  That in their lives such deadly fray they ne'er had seen before。
  Down went the misbelievers;fast sped the bloody fight;
  Some ghastly and dismembered lay; and some half dead with fright:
  Full sorely they repented that to the field they came;
  For they saw that from the battle they should retreat with shame。
  Another thing befell them;they dreamed not of such woes;
  The very arrows that the Moors shot front their twanging bows
  Turned back against them in their flight and wounded them full
  sore;
  And every blow they dealt the foe was paid in drops of gore。
  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。
  Now he that bore the crosier; and the papal crown had on;
  Was the glorified Apostle; the brother of Saint John;
  And he that held the crucifix; and wore the monkish hood;
  Was the holy San Millan of Cogolla's neighborhood。
  SAN MIGUEL; THE CONVENT
  (SAN MIGUEL DE LA TUMBA)
  BY GONZALO DE BERCEO
  San Miguel de la Tumba is a convent vast and wide;
  The sea encircles it around; and groans on every side:
  It is a wild and dangerous place; and many woes betide
  The monks who in that burial…place in penitence abide。
  Within those dark monastic walls; amid the ocean flood;
  Of pious; fasting monks there dwelt a holy brotherhood;
  To the Madonna's glory there an altar high was placed;
  And a rich and costly image the sacred altar graced。
  Exalted high upon a throne; the Virgin Mother smiled;
  And; as the custom is; she held within her arms the Child;
  The kings and wise men of the East were kneeling by her side;
  Attended was she like a queen whom God had sanctified。
  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。
  Descending low before her face a screen of feathers hung;
  A moscader; or fan for flies; 'tis called in vulgar tongue;
  From the feathers of the peacock's wing 't was fashioned bright
  and fair;
  And glistened like the heaven above when all its stars are there。
  It chanced that; for the people's sins; fell the lightning's
  blasting stroke:
  Forth from all four the sacred walls the flames consuming broke;
  The sacred robes were all consumed; missal and holy book;
  And hardly with their lives the monks their crumbling walls
  forsook。
  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。
  But though the desolating flame raged fearfully and wild;
  It did not reach the Virgin Queen; it did not reach the Child;
  It did not reach the feathery screen before her face that shone;
  Nor injure in a farthing's worth the image or the throne。
  The image it did not consume; it did not burn the screen;
  Even in the value of a hair they were not hurt; I ween;
  Not even the smoke did reach them; nor injure more the shrine
  Than the bishop hight Don Tello has been hurt by hand of mine。
  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。  。
  SONG
  She is a maid of artless grace;
  Gentle in form; and fair of face;
  Tell me; thou ancient mariner;
  That sailest on the sea;
  If ship; or sail or evening star
  Be half so fair as she!
  Tell me; thou gallant cavalier;
  Whose shining arms I see;
  If steel; or sword; or battle…field
  Be half so fair as she!
  Tell me; thou swain; that gnard'st thy flock
  Beneath the shadowy tree;
  If flock; or vale; or mountain…ridge
  Be half so fair as she!
  SANTA TERESA'S BOOK…MARK
  (LETRILLA QUE LLEVABA POR REGISTRO EN SU BREVIARIO)
  BY SANTA TERESA DE AVILA
  Let nothing disturb thee;
  Nothing affright thee;
  All things are passing;
  God never changeth;
  Patient endurance
  Attaineth to all things;
  Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth。
  FROM THE CANCIONEROS
  I
  EYES SO TRISTFUL; EYES SO TRISTFUL
  (OJOS TRISTES; OJOS TRISTES)
  BY DIEGO DE SALDANA
  Eyes so tristful; eyes so tristful;
  Heart so full of care and cumber;
  I was lapped in rest and slumber;
  Ye have made me wakeful; wistful!
  In this life of labor endless
  Who shall comfort my distresses?
  Querulous my soul and friendless
  In its sorrow shuns caresses。
  Ye have made me; ye have made me
  Querulous of you; that care not;
  Eyes so tristful; yet I dare not
  Say to what ye have betrayed me。
  II
  SOME DAY; SOME DAY
  (ALGUNA VEZ)
  BY CRISTOBAL DE GASTILLOJO
  Some day; some day
  O troubled breast;
  Shalt thou find rest。
  If Love in thee
  To grief give birth;
  Six feet of earth
  Can more than he;
  There calm and free
  And unoppressed
  Shalt thou find rest。
  The unattained
  In life at last;
  When life is passed;
  Shall all be gained;
  And no more pained;
  No more distressed;
  Shalt thou find rest。
  III
  COME; O DEATH; SO SILENT FLYING
  (VEN; MUERTE TAN ESCONDIDA)
  BY EL COMMENDADOR ESCRIVA
  Come; O Death; so silent flying
  That unheard thy coming be;
  Lest the sweet delight of dying
  Bring life back again to me。
  For thy sure approach perceiving;
  In my constancy and pain
  I new life should win again;
  Thinking that I am not living。
  So to me; unconscious lying;
  All unknown thy coming be;
  Lest the sweet delight of dying
  Bring life back again to me。
  Unto him who finds thee hateful;
  Death; thou art inhuman pain;
  But to me; who dying gain;
  Life is but a task ungrateful。
  Come; then; with my wish complying;
  All unheard thy coming be;
  Lest the sweet delight of dying
  Bring life back again to me。
  IV
  GLOVE OF BLACK IN WHITE HAND BARE
  Glove of black in white hand bare;
  And about her forehead pale
  Wound a thin; transparent veil;
  That doth not conceal her hair;
  Sovereign attitude and air;
  Cheek and neck alike displayed
  With coquettish charms arrayed;
  Laughing eyes and fugitive;
  This is killing men that live;
  'T is not mourning for the dead。
  FROM THE SWEDISH AND DANISH
  PASSAGES FROM FRITHIOF'S SAGA
  BY ESAIAS TEGNER
  I
  FRITHIOF'S HOMESTEAD
  Three miles extended around the fields of the homestead; on three
  sides
  Valleys and mountains and hills; but on the fourth side was the
  ocean。
  Birch woods crowned the summits; but down the slope of the
  hillsides
  Flourished the golden corn; and man…high was waving the
  rye…field。
  Lakes; full many in number; their mirror held up for the
  mountains;
  Held for the forests up; in whose depths the high…horned
  reindeers
  Had their kingly walk; and drank of a hundred brooklets。
  But in the valleys widely around; there fed on the greensward
  Herds with shining hides and udders that longed for the
  milk…pail。
  'Mid these scattered; now here and now there; were numberless
  flocks of
  Sheep with fleeces white; as thou seest the white…looking stray
  clouds;
  Flock…wise spread o'er the heavenly vault when it bloweth in
  springtime。
  Coursers two times twelve; all mettlesome; fast fettered storm…
  winds;
  Stamping stood in the line of stalls; and tugged at their fodder。
  Knotted with red were their manes; and their hoofs all white with
  steel shoes。
  Th' banquet…hall; a house by itself; was timbered of hard fir。
  Not five hundred men (at ten times twelve to the hundred)
  Filled up the roomy hall; when assembled for drinking; at
  Yule…tide。
  Through the hall; as long as it was; went a table of holm…oak;
  Polished and white; as of steel; the columns twain of the
  High…seat
  Stood at the end thereof; two gods carved out of an elm…tree:
  Odin with lordly look; and Frey with the sun on his frontlet。
  Lately between the two; on a bear…skin (the skin it was
  coal…black;
  Scarlet…red was the throat; but the paws were shodden with
  silver);
  Thorsten sat with his friends; Hospitality sitting with Gladness。
  Oft; when the moon through the cloudrack flew; related the old
  man
  Wonders from distant lands he had seen; and cruises of Vikings
  Far away on the Baltic; and Sea of the West and the White Sea。
  Hushed sat the listening bench; and their glances hung on the
  graybeard's
  Lips; as a bee on the rose; but the Scald was thinking of Brage;
  Where; with his silver beard; and runes on his tongue; he is
  seated
  Under the leafy beech; and tells a tradition by Mimer's
  Ever…murmuring wave; himself a living tradition。
  Midway the floor (with thatch was it strewn) burned ever the
  fire…flame
  Glad on its stone…built hearth; and thorough the wide…mouthed
  smoke…flue
  Looked the stars; those heavenly friends; down into the great
  hall。
  Round the walls; upon nails of steel; were hanging in order
  Breastplate and helmet together; and here and there among them
  Downward lightened a sword; as in winter evening a star shoots。
  More than helmets and swords the shields in the hall were
  resplendent;
  Whit