第 7 节
作者: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
  A