第 18 节
作者:老是不进球      更新:2021-02-19 17:49      字数:9321
  And gathered home with the weekly need;
  Kindly greetings as neighbours meet
  There in the stir of the busy street。
  Then is the glare of the gaslight ray
  Gifted with potency strange to…day;
  Records of time…written history
  Flash into sight as each face goes by。
  There; as the hundreds slow moving go;
  Each with his burden of joy or woe;
  Souls; in the meeting of stranger's eyes;
  Startled this kinship to recognise;
  Meet and part; as the stars look down;
  Week by week on the crowded town。
  ~And still; in the midst of the busy hum;
  Rapt in their dream of delight they come。
  Heedless of sorrow; of grief or care;
  Wandering on in enchanted air;
  Far from the haunting shadow of pain:
  Two by two; again and again;
  Strephon and Chloe together move;
  Walking in Arcady; land of love。~
  ‘Resurgam'
  (Autumn Song)
  Chill breezes moaning are
  Where leaves hang yellow:
  O'er the grey hills afar
  Flies the last swallow;
  To come again; my love; to come again
  Blithe with the summer。
  But Ah! the long months ere we welcome then
  That bright new comer。
  Cold lie the flowers and dead
  Where leaves are falling。
  Meekly they bowed and sped
  At Autumn's calling。
  To come again; my love; to come again
  Blithe with the swallow。
  Ah! might I dreaming lie at rest till then;
  Or rise and follow!
  The summer blooms are gone;
  And bright birds darting;
  Cold lies the earth forlorn;
  And we are parting。
  To meet again; my love; to meet again
  In deathless greeting;
  But ah! what wintry bitterness of pain
  Ere that far meeting!
  Distant Authors
  〃Aqui esta encerrada el alma licenciado Pedro Garcias。〃
  Dear books! and each the living soul;
  Our hearts aver; of men unseen;
  Whose power to strengthen; charm; control;
  Surmounts all earth's green miles between。
  For us at least the artists show
  Apart from fret of work…day jars:
  We know them but as friends may know;
  Or they are known beyond the stars。
  Their mirth; their grief; their soul's desire;
  When twilight murmuring of streams;
  Or skies far touched by sunset fire;
  Exalt them to pure worlds of dreams;
  Their love of good; their rage at wrong;
  Their hours when struggling thought makes way;
  Their hours when fancy drifts to song
  Lightly and glad as bird…trills may;
  All these are truths。  And if as true
  More graceless scrutiny that reads;
  〃These fruits amid strange husking grew;〃
  〃These lilies blossomed amongst weeds;〃
  Here no despoiling doubts shall blow;
  No fret of feud; of work…day jars。
  We know them but as friends may know;
  Or they are known beyond the stars。
  John Bernard O'Hara。
  Happy Creek
  The little creek goes winding
  Thro' gums of white and blue;
  A silver arm
  Around the farm
  It flings; a lover true;
  And softly; where the rushes lean;
  It sings (O sweet and low)
  A lover's song;
  And winds along;
  How happy  lovers know!
  The little creek goes singing
  By maidenhair and moss;
  Along its banks
  In rosy ranks
  The wild flowers wave and toss;
  And ever where the ferns dip down
  It sings (O sweet and low)
  A lover's song;
  And winds along;
  How happy  lovers know!
  The little creek takes colour;
  From summer skies above;
  Now blue; now gold;
  Its waters fold
  The clouds in closest love;
  But loudly when the thunders roll
  It sings (nor sweet; nor low)
  No lover's song;
  But sweeps along;
  How angry  lovers know!
  The little creek for ever
  Goes winding; winding down;
  Away; away;
  By night; by day;
  Where dark the ranges frown;
  But ever as it glides it sings;
  It sings (O sweet and low)
  A lover's song;
  And winds along;
  How happy  lovers know!
  A Country Village
  Among the folding hills
  It lies; a quiet nook;
  Where dreaming nature fills
  Sweet pages of her book;
  While through the meadow flowers
  She sings in summer hours;
  Or weds the woodland rills
  Low…laughing to the brook。
  The graveyard whitely gleams
  Across the soundless vale;
  So sad; so sweet; yet seems
  A watcher cold and pale
  That waits through many springs
  The tribute old Time brings;
  And knows; though life be loud;
  The reaper may not fail。
  Here come not feet of change
  From year to fading year;
  Ringed by the rolling range
  No world…wide notes men hear。
  The wheels of time may stand
  Here in a lonely land;
  Age after age may pass
  Untouched of change or cheer;
  As still the farmer keeps
  The same dull round of things;
  He reaps and sows and reaps;
  And clings; as ivy clings;
  To old…time trust; nor cares
  What science does or dares;
  What lever moves the world;
  What progress spreads its wings。
  Yet here; of woman born;
  Are lives that know not rest;
  With fierce desires that scorn
  The quiet life as best;
  That see in wider ways
  Life's richer splendours blaze;
  And feel ambition's fire
  Burn in their ardent breast。
  Yea; some that fain would know
  Life's purpose strange and vast;
  How wide is human woe;
  What wailing of the past
  Still strikes the present dumb;
  What phantoms go and come
  Of wrongs that cry aloud;
  〃At last; O God! at last!〃
  Here; too; are dreams that wing
  Rich regions of Romance;
  Love waking when the Spring
  Begins its first wild dance;
  Love redder than the rose;
  Love paler than the snows;
  Love frail as corn that tilts
  With morning winds a lance。
  For never land so lone
  That love could find not wings
  In every wind that's blown
  By lips of jewelled springs;
  For love is life's sweet pain;
  And when sweet life is slain
  It finds a radiant rest
  Beyond the change of things。
  Beyond the shocks that jar;
  The chance of changing fate;
  Where fraud and violence are;
  And heedless lust and hate;
  Yet still where faith is clear;
  And honour held most dear;
  And hope that seeks the dawn
  Looks up with heart elate。
  Flinders
  He left his island home
  For leagues of sleepless foam;
  For stress of alien seas;
  Where wild winds ever blow;
  For England's sake he sought
  Fresh fields of fame; and fought
  A stormy world for these
  A hundred years ago。
  And where the Austral shore
  Heard southward far the roar
  Of rising tides that came
  From lands of ice and snow;
  Beneath a gracious sky
  To fadeless memory
  He left a deathless name
  A hundred years ago。
  Yea; left a name sublime
  From that wild dawn of Time;
  Whose light he haply saw
  In supreme sunrise flow;
  And from the shadows vast;
  That filled the dim dead past;
  A brighter glory draw;
  A hundred years ago。
  Perchance; he saw in dreams
  Beside our sunlit streams
  In some majestic hour
  Old England's banners blow;
  Mayhap; the radiant morn
  Of this great nation born;
  August with perfect power;
  A hundred years ago。
  We know not;  yet for thee
  Far may the season be;
  Whose harp in shameful sleep
  Is soundless lying low!
  Far be the noteless hour
  That holds of fame no flower
  For those who dared our deep
  A hundred years ago。
  M。 A。 Sinclair。
  The Chatelaine
  I have built one; so have you;
  Paved with marble; domed with blue;
  Battlement and ladies' bower;
  Donjon keep and watchman's tower。
  I have climbed; as you have done;
  To the tower at set of sun
  Crying from its parlous height;
  〃Watchman; tell us of the night。〃
  I have stolen at midnight bell;
  Like you; to the secret cell;
  Shuddering at its charnel breath
  Left lockfast the spectre; Death。
  I have used your lure to call
  Choice guests to my golden hall:
  Rarely welcome; rarely free
  To my hospitality。
  In a glow of rosy light
  Hours; like minutes; take their flight
  As from you they fled away;
  When; like you; I bade them stay。
  Ah! the pretty flow of wit;
  And the good hearts under it;
  While the wheels of life go round
  With a most melodious sound。
  Not a vestige anywhere
  Of our grim familiar; Care
  Roses! from the trees of yore
  Blooming by the rivers four。
  Not a jar; and not a fret;
  Ecstasy and longing met。
  But why should I thus define
  Is not your chateau like mine?
  Scarcely were it strange to meet
  In that magic realm so sweet;
  So!  I'll take this dreamland train
  Bound for my chateau in Spain。
  Sydney Jephcott。
  Chaucer
  O gracious morning eglantine;
  Making the far old English ways divine!
  Though from thy stock our mateless rose was bred;
  Staining the world's skies with its red;
  Our garden gives no scent so fresh as thine;
  Sweet; thorny…seeming eglantine。