第 7 节
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翱翔1981 更新:2021-04-30 15:55 字数:9321
Then I swooned away in horror。 Oh! that shriek which rent the air;
Like the voice of some fell demon harrowed by a mad despair。
HARPS WE LOVE
THE harp we love hath a royal burst!
Its strings are mighty forest trees;
And branches; swaying to and fro;
Are fingers sounding symphonies。
The harp we love hath a solemn sound!
And rocks amongst the shallow seas
Are strings from which the rolling waves
Draw forth their stirring harmonies。
The harp we love hath a low sweet voice!
Its strings are in the bosom deep;
And Love will press those hidden chords
When all the baser passions sleep。
WAITING AND WISHING
I LOITER by this surging sea;
Here; by this surging; sooming sea;
Here; by this wailing; wild…faced sea;
Dreaming through the dreamy night;
Yearning for a strange delight!
Will it ever; ever; ever fly to me;
By this surging sea;
By this surging; sooming sea;
By this wailing; wild…faced sea?
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I know some gentle spirit lives;
Some loving; lonely spirit lives;
Some melancholy spirit lives;
Walking o'er the earth for me;
Searching round the world for me!
Will she ever; ever; ever hither come?
Where the waters roam;
Where the sobbing waters roam!
Where the raving waters roam!
All worn and wasted by the storms;
All gapped and fractured by the storms;
All split and splintered by the storms;
Overhead the caverns groan;
Gloomy; ghastly caverns groan! …
Will she ever; ever; ever fill this heart?
Peace; O longing heart!
Peace; O longing; beating heart!
Peace; O beating; weary heart!
THE WILD KANGAROO
THE rain…clouds have gone to the deep …
The East like a furnace doth glow;
And the day…spring is flooding the steep;
And sheening the landscape below。
Oh; ye who are gifted with souls
That delight in the music of birds;
Come forth where the scattered mist rolls;
And listen to eloquent words!
Oh; ye who are fond of the sport;
And would travel yon wilderness through;
Gather … each to his place … for a life…stirring chase;
In the wake of the wild Kangaroo!
Gather … each to his place …
For a life…stirring chase
In the wake of the wild Kangaroo!
Beyond the wide rents of the fog;
The trees are illumined with gold;
And the bark of the shepherd's brave dog
Shoots away from the sheltering fold。
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Down the depths of yon rock…border'd glade;
A torrent goes foaming along;
And the blind…owls retire into shade;
And the bell…bird beginneth its song。
By the side of that yawning abyss;
Where the vapours are hurrying to;
We will merrily pass; looking down to the grass
For the tracks of the wild Kangaroo!
We will merrily pass;
Looking down to the grass
For the tracks of the wild Kangaroo。
Ho; brothers; away to the woods;
Euroka hath clambered the hill;
But the morning there seldom intrudes;
Where the night…shadows slumber on still。
We will roam o'er these forest…lands wild;
And thread the dark masses of vines;
Where the winds; like the voice of a child;
Are singing aloft in the pines。
We must keep down the glee of our hounds;
We must steal through the glittering dew;
And the breezes shall sleep as we cautiously creep
To the haunts of the wild Kangaroo。
And the breezes shall sleep;
As we cautiously creep
To the haunts of the wild Kangaroo。
When we pass through a stillness like death
The swamp fowl and timorous quail;
Like the leaves in a hurricane's breath;
Will start from their nests in the vale;
And the forester;* snuffing the air;
Will bound from his covert so dark;
While we follow along in the rear;
As arrows speed on to their mark!
Then the swift hounds shall bring him to bay;
And we'll send forth a hearty halloo;
As we gather them all to be in at the fall …
At the death of the wild Kangaroo!
As we gather them all
To be in at the fall …
At the death of the wild Kangaroo!
Note:*The Kangaroo
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CLARI
TOO cold; O my brother; too cold for my wife
Is the Beauty you showed me this morning:
Nor yet have I found the sweet dream of my life;
And good…bye to the sneering and scorning。
Would you have me cast down in the dark of her frown;
Like others who bend at her shrine;
And would barter their souls for a statue…like face;
And a heart that can never be mine?
That can never be theirs nor mine。
Go after her; look at her; kneel at her feet;
And mimic the lover romantic;
I have hated deceit; and she misses the treat
Of driving me hopelessly frantic!
Now watch her; as deep in her carriage she lies;
And love her; my friend; if you dare!
She would wither your life with her beautiful eyes;
And strangle your soul with her hair!
With a mesh of her splendid hair。
WOLLONGONG
LET me talk of years evanished; let me harp upon the time
When we trod these sands together; in our boyhood's golden prime;
Let me lift again the curtain; while I gaze upon the past;
As the sailor glances homewards; watching from the topmost mast。
Here we rested on the grasses; in the glorious summer hours;
When the waters hurried seaward; fringed with ferns and forest flowers;
When our youthful eyes; rejoicing; saw the sunlight round the spray
In a rainbow…wreath of splendour; glittering underneath the day;
Sunlight flashing past the billows; falling cliffs and crags among;
Clothing hopeful friendship basking on the shores of Wollongong。
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Echoes of departed voices; whispers from forgotten dreams;
Come across my spirit; like the murmurs of melodious streams。
Here we both have wandered nightly; when the moonshine cold and pale
Shimmer'd on the cone of Keira; sloping down the sleeping vale;
When the mournful waves came sobbing; sobbing on the furrowed shore;
Like to lone hearts weeping over loved ones they shall see no more;
While the silver ripples; stealing past the shells and slimy stones;
Broke beneath the caverns; dying; one by one; in muffled moans;
As the fragrant wood…winds roaming; with a fitful cadence sung
'Mid the ghostly branches belting round the shores of Wollongong。
Lovely faces flit before us; friendly forms around us stand;
Gleams of well…remembered gladness trip along the yellow sand。
Here the gold…green waters glistened underneath our dreaming gaze;
As the lights of Heaven slanted down the pallid ether haze;
Here the mossy rock…pool; like to one that stirs himself in sleep;
Trembled every moment at the roaring of the restless deep;
While the stately vessels swooping to the breezes fair and free;
Passed away like sheeted spectres; fading down the distant sea;
And our wakened fancies sparkled; and our soul…born thoughts we strung
Into joyous lyrics; singing with the waves of Wollongong。
Low…breathed strains of sweetest music float about my raptured ears;
Angel…eyes are glancing at me hopeful smiles and happy tears。
Merry feet go scaling up the old and thunder…shattered steeps;
And the billows clamber after; and the surge to ocean leaps;
Scattered into fruitless showers; falling where the breakers roll;
Baffled like the aspirations of a proud ambitious soul。
Far off sounds of silvery laughter through the hollow caverns ring;
While my heart leaps up to catch reviving pleasure on the wing;
And the years come trooping backward; and we both again are young;
Walking side by side upon the lovely shores of Wollongong。
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Fleeting dreams and idle fancies! Lo; the gloomy after Age
Creepeth; like an angry shadow; over life's eventful stage!
Joy is but a mocking phantom; throwing out its glitter brief …
Short…lived as the western sunbeam dying from the cedar leaf。
Here we linger; lonely…hearted; musing over visions fled;
While the sickly twilight withers from the arches overhead。
Semblance of a bliss delusive are those dull; receding rays;
Semblance of the faint reflection left to us of other days;
Days of vernal hope and gladness; hours when the blossoms sprung
Round the feet of blithesome ramblers by the shores of Wollongong。
ELLA WITH THE SHINING HAIR
THROUGH many a fragrant cedar grove
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