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作者:翱翔1981      更新:2024-04-07 21:07      字数:4321
  sumptuous festival。
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  THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD
  STREET CRIES
  When   dawn's   first   cymbals   beat   upon   the   sky;   Rousing   the   world   to
  labour's various cry; To tend the flock; to bind the mellowing grain; From
  ardent toil to forge a little gain; And fasting men go forth on hurrying feet;
  BUY BREAD; BUY BREAD; rings down the eager street。
  When   the   earth   falters   and   the   waters   swoon   With   the   implacable
  radiance of noon; And in dim shelters koils hush their notes; And the faint;
  thirsting blood in languid throats Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat;
  BUY FRUIT; BUY FRUIT; steals down the panting street。
  When twilight twinkling o'er the gay bazaars; Unfurls a sudden canopy
  of   stars;   When   lutes   are   strung   and   fragrant   torches   lit   On   white   roof…
  terraces where lovers sit Drinking together of life's poignant sweet; BUY
  FLOWERS; BUY FLOWERS; floats down the singing street。
  TO INDIA
  O    young    through    all  thy  immemorial      years!   Rise;   Mother;    rise;
  regenerate from thy gloom; And; like a bride high…mated with the spheres;
  Beget new glories from thine ageless womb!
  The   nations   that   in   fettered   darkness   weep   Crave   thee   to   lead   them
  where great mornings break 。 。 。 。 Mother; O Mother; wherefore dost thou
  sleep? Arise and answer for thy children's sake!
  Thy   Future   calls   thee   with   a   manifold   sound   To   crescent   honours;
  splendours; victories vast; Waken; O slumbering Mother and be crowned;
  Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past。
  THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA
  I muse among these silent fanes Whose spacious darkness guards your
  dust; Around   me   sleep   the   hoary   plains   That   hold   your   ancient   wars   in
  trust。 I pause; my dreaming spirit hears; Across the wind's unquiet tides;
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  THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD
  The glimmering music of your spears; The laughter of your royal brides。
  In   vain;   O   Kings;   doth   time   aspire   To   make   your   names   oblivion's
  sport; While yonder hill wears like a tier The ruined grandeur of your fort。
  Though centuries falter and decline; Your proven strongholds shall remain
  Embodied memories of your line; Incarnate legends of your reign。
  O   Queens;   in   vain   old   Fate   decreed   Your   flower…like   bodies   to   the
  tomb;   Death   is   in   truth the   vital   seed   Of   your   imperishable bloom  Each
  new…born year the bulbuls sing Their songs of your renascent loves; Your
  beauty wakens with the spring To kindle these pomegranate groves。
  TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
  Lord Buddha; on thy Lotus…throne; With praying eyes and hands elate;
  What mystic rapture dost thou own; Immutable and ultimate? What peace;
  unravished of our ken; Annihilate from the world of men?
  The wind of change for ever blows Across the tumult of our way; To…
  morrow's      unborn   griefs   depose   The   sorrows    of  our   yesterday。   Dream
  yields to dream; strife follows       strife;
  And Death unweaves the webs of Life。
  For us the travail and the heat; The broken secrets of our pride; The
  strenuous lessons of defeat; The flower deferred; the fruit denied; But not
  the peace; supremely won; Lord Buddha; of thy Lotus…throne。
  With   futile   hands   we   seek   to   gain   Our   inaccessible   desire;   Diviner
  summits to attain; With faith that sinks and feet that tire; But nought shall
  conquer or control The heavenward hunger of our soul。
  The end; elusive and afar; Still lures us with its beckoning flight; And
  all our mortal moments are A session of the Infinite。 How shall we reach
  the great; unknown Nirvana of thy Lotus…throne?
  'end'
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