第 15 节
作者:僻处自说      更新:2021-02-21 12:02      字数:5737
  flooding sea upon the sands; And quenches starlight overhead。
  Long have they slept。 Their separate dust Has mingled with a nameless
  mould。 Only the slower…crumbling stones Still tell so much as may be told。
  And now in shoreless fog adrift Like some lone mariner gliding by; I
  lean above the drowning graves And wonder when I too shall lie
  Where evermore the tides of night And earth will hide my lonely rest;
  And Time will bid my love forget To read the stone upon my breast。
  G。 O。 WARREN
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  BEAUTY
  NOT  flesh   alone   am  I;   when   I   can   be   So   swiftly  caught   in   Beauty's
  shimmering thread Whose slender fibres; woven; held by  me; With their
  frail strength my following heart have led。
  Yea; not   all   mortal;  not   all death   my   mind; When;  watching by  lone
  twilight waters' brim I tremblingly decipher; as they wind; Her deathless
  hieroglyphs; though strange and dim。
  So for   this   faith;  when Thou   my  dust shalt  bring To   dust;  remember
  well; Great Alchemist; Yearly to change my wintry earth to spring; That I
  with Beauty still may keep my tryst。
  G。 O。 WARREN
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  COMRADES
  WHERE are the friends that I knew in my Maying; In the days of my
  youth; in the first of my roaming? We were dear; we were leal; O; far we
  went straying; Now never a heart to my heart comes homing! Where is
  he now; the dark boy slender Who taught me bare…back; stirrup and reins?
  I love him; he loved me; my beautiful; tender Tamer of horses on grass…
  grown plains。
  Where is he now whose eyes swam brighter; Softer than love; in his
  turbulent charms; Who taught me to strike; and to fall; dear fighter; And
  gather me up in his boyhood arms; Taught me the rifle; and with me went
  riding;   Suppled   my   limbs   to   the   horseman's   war;   Where   is   he   now;   for
  whom my heart's biding; Biding; bidingbut he rides far!
  O love that passes the love of woman! Who that hath felt it shall ever
  forget When the breath of life with a throb turns human; And a lad's heart
  is to a lad's heart set? Ever; forever; lover and rover They shall cling; nor
  each from other shall part Till the reign of the stars in the heavens be 'over;
  And life is dust in each faithful heart。
  They are dead; the American grasses under; There is no one now who
  presses my side; By the African chotts I am riding asunder; And with great
  joy   ride  I  the  last  great  ride。  I  am  fey;   I  am  fein  of  sudden    dying;
  Thousands of miles there is no one near; And my heartall the night it is
  crying; crying In the bosoms of dead lads darling…dear。
  Hearts of my musicthem dark earth covers; Comrades to die; and to
  die for; were they; In the width of the world there were no such rovers
  Back to back; breast to breast; it was ours to stay; And the highest on earth
  was the vow that we cherished; To spur forth from the crowd and come
  back never more; And to ride in the track of great souls perished Till the
  nests of the lark shall roof us o'er。
  Yet lingers a horseman on Altai highlands; Who hath joy of me; riding
  the Tartar glissade; And one; far faring o'er orient islands Whose blood yet
  glints   with   my   blade's   accolade;   North;   west;   east;   I   fling   you   my   last
  hallooing; Last love to the breasts where my own has bled; Through the
  reach of the desert my soul leaps pursuing My star where it rises a Star of
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  the Dead。
  GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
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  THE FLIGHT
  I
  O   WILD   HEART;   track   the   land's   perfume;   Beach…roses   and   moor…
  heather!   All   fragrances   of   herb   and   bloom   Fail;   out   at   sea;   together。   O
  follow where aloft find room Lark…song and eagle…feather! All ecstasies of
  throat and plume Melt; high on yon blue weather。
  O leave on sky and ocean lost The flight creation dareth; Take wings
  of love; that mounts the most: Find fame; that furthest fareth! Thy flight;
  albeit amid her host Thee; too; night star…like beareth; Flying; thy breast on
  heaven's coast; The infinite outweareth。
  II
  〃Dead o'er us roll celestial fires; Mute stand Earth's ancient beaches;
  Old thoughts; old instincts; old desires; The passing hour outreaches; The
  soul creative never tires Evokes; adcres; beseeches; And that heart most
  the god inspires Whom most its wildness teaches。
  〃For I will course through falling years And stars and cities burning;
  And I will march through dying cheers Past empires unreturning; Ever the
  world   flame   reappears   Where   mankind   power   is   earning;   The   nations'
  hopes; the people's tears; One with the wild heart yearning。
  GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
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