第 22 节
作者:空白协议书      更新:2021-02-21 16:29      字数:9321
  come back Saint Peter。  Benedicite!
  'Exit。
  (A pause。  Then enter BARTOLOME wildly; as if in pursuit; with a
  carbine in his hand。)
  Bart。  They passed this way!  I hear their horses' hoofs!
  Yonder I see them!  Come; sweet caramillo;
  This serenade shall be the Gypsy's last!
  (Fires down the pass。)
  Ha! ha!  Well whistled; my sweet caramillo!
  Well whistled!I have missed her!O my God!
  (The shot is returned。  BARTOLOME falls)。
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  THE BELFRY OF BRUGES AND OTHER POEMS
  THE BELFRY OF BRUGES
  CARILLON
  In the ancient town of Bruges;
  In the quaint old Flemish city;
  As the evening shades descended;
  Low and loud and sweetly blended;
  Low at times and loud at times;
  And changing like a poet's rhymes;
  Rang the beautiful wild chimes
  From the Belfry in the market
  Of the ancient town of Bruges。
  Then; with deep sonorous clangor
  Calmly answering their sweet anger;
  When the wrangling bells had ended;
  Slowly struck the clock eleven;
  And; from out the silent heaven;
  Silence on the town descended。
  Silence; silence everywhere;
  On the earth and in the air;
  Save that footsteps here and there
  Of some burgher home returning;
  By the street lamps faintly burning;
  For a moment woke the echoes
  Of the ancient town of Bruges。
  But amid my broken slumbers
  Still I heard those magic numbers;
  As they loud proclaimed the flight
  And stolen marches of the night;
  Till their chimes in sweet collision
  Mingled with each wandering vision;
  Mingled with the fortune…telling
  Gypsy…bands of dreams and fancies;
  Which amid the waste expanses
  Of the silent land of trances
  Have their solitary dwelling;
  All else seemed asleep in Bruges;
  In the quaint old Flemish city。
  And I thought how like these chimes
  Are the poet's airy rhymes;
  All his rhymes and roundelays;
  His conceits; and songs; and ditties;
  From the belfry of his brain;
  Scattered downward; though in vain;
  On the roofs and stones of cities!
  For by night the drowsy ear
  Under its curtains cannot hear;
  And by day men go their ways;
  Hearing the music as they pass;
  But deeming it no more; alas!
  Than the hollow sound of brass。
  Yet perchance a sleepless wight;
  Lodging at some humble inn
  In the narrow lanes of life;
  When the dusk and hush of night
  Shut out the incessant din
  Of daylight and its toil and strife;
  May listen with a calm delight
  To the poet's melodies;
  Till he hears; or dreams he hears;
  Intermingled with the song;
  Thoughts that he has cherished long;
  Hears amid the chime and singing
  The bells of his own village ringing;
  And wakes; and finds his slumberous eyes
  Wet with most delicious tears。
  Thus dreamed I; as by night I lay
  In Bruges; at the Fleur…de…Ble;
  Listening with a wild delight
  To the chimes that; through the night
  Bang their changes from the Belfry
  Of that quaint old Flemish city。
  THE BELFRY OF BRUGES
  In the market…place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown;
  Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded; still it watches o'er the
  town。
  As the summer morn was breaking; on that lofty tower I stood;
  And the world threw off the darkness; like the weeds of
  widowhood。
  Thick with towns and hamlets studded; and with streams and vapors
  gray;
  Like a shield embossed with silver; round and vast the landscape
  lay。
  At my feet the city slumbered。  From its chimneys; here and
  there;
  Wreaths of snow…white smoke; ascending; vanished; ghost…like;
  into air。
  Not a sound rose from the city at that early morning hour;
  But I heard a heart of iron beating in the ancient tower。
  From their nests beneath the rafters sang the swallows wild and
  high;
  And the world; beneath me sleeping; seemed more distant than the
  sky。
  Then most musical and solemn; bringing back the olden times;
  With their strange; unearthly changes rang the melancholy chimes;
  Like the psalms from some old cloister; when the nuns sing in the
  choir;
  And the great bell tolled among them; like the chanting of a
  friar。
  Visions of the days departed; shadowy phantoms filled my brain;
  They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again;
  All the Foresters of Flanders;mighty Baldwin Bras de Fer;
  Lyderick du Bucq and Cressy Philip; Guy de Dampierre。
  I beheld the pageants splendid that adorned those days of old;
  Stately dames; like queens attended; knights who bore the Fleece
  of Gold
  Lombard and Venetian merchants with deep…laden argosies;
  Ministers from twenty nations; more than royal pomp and ease。
  I beheld proud Maximilian; kneeling humbly on the ground;
  I beheld the gentle Mary; hunting with her hawk and hound;
  And her lighted bridal…chamber; where a duke slept with the
  queen;
  And the armed guard around them; and the sword unsheathed
  between。
  I beheld the Flemish weavers; with Namur and Juliers bold;
  Marching homeward from the bloody battle of the Spurs of Gold;
  Saw the light at Minnewater; saw the White Hoods moving west;
  Saw great Artevelde victorious scale the Golden Dragon's nest。
  And again the whiskered Spaniard all the land with terror smote;
  And again the wild alarum sounded from the tocsin's throat;
  Till the bell of Ghent responded o'er lagoon and dike of sand;
  〃I am Roland!  I am Roland! there is victory in the land!〃
  Then the sound of drums aroused me。  The awakened city's roar
  Chased the phantoms I had summoned back into their graves once
  more。
  Hours had passed away like minutes; and; before I was aware;
  Lo! the shadow of the belfry crossed the sun…illumined square。
  A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE
  This is the place。  Stand still; my steed;
  Let me review the scene;
  And summon from the shadowy Past
  The forms that once have been。
  The Past and Present here unite
  Beneath Time's flowing tide;
  Like footprints hidden by a brook;
  But seen on either side。
  Here runs the highway to the town;
  There the green lane descends;
  Through which I walked to church with thee;
  O gentlest of my friends!
  The shadow of the linden…trees
  Lay moving on the grass;
  Between them and the moving boughs;
  A shadow; thou didst pass。
  Thy dress was like the lilies;
  And thy heart as pure as they:
  One of God's holy messengers
  Did walk with me that day。
  I saw the branches of the trees
  Bend down thy touch to meet;
  The clover…blossoms in the grass
  Rise up to kiss thy feet;
  〃Sleep; sleep to…day; tormenting cares;
  Of earth and folly born!〃
  Solemnly sang the village choir
  On that sweet Sabbath morn。
  Through the closed blinds the golden sun
  Poured in a dusty beam;
  Like the celestial ladder seen
  By Jacob in his dream。
  And ever and anon; the wind;
  Sweet…scented with the hay;
  Turned o'er the hymn…book's fluttering leaves
  That on the window lay。
  Long was the good man's sermon;
  Yet it seemed not so to me;
  For he spake of Ruth the beautiful;
  And still I thought of thee。
  Long was the prayer he uttered;
  Yet it seemed not so to me;
  For in my heart I prayed with him;
  And still I thought of thee。
  But now; alas! the place seems changed;
  Thou art no longer here:
  Part of the sunshine of the scene
  With thee did disappear。
  Though thoughts; deep…rooted in my heart;
  Like pine…trees dark and high;
  Subdue the light of noon; and breathe
  A low and ceaseless sigh;
  This memory brightens o'er the past;
  As when the sun; concealed
  Behind some cloud that near us hangs
  Shines on a distant field。
  THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD
  This is the Arsenal。  From floor to ceiling;
  Like a huge organ; rise the burnished arms;
  But front their silent pipes no anthem pealing
  Startles the villages with strange alarms。
  Ah! what a sound will rise; how wild and dreary;
  When the death…angel touches those swift keys
  What loud lament and dismal Miserere
  Will mingle with their awful symphonies
  I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus;
  The cries of agony; the endless groan;
  Which; through the ages that have gone before us;
  In long reverberations reach our own。
  On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer;
  Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song;
  And loud; amid the universal clamor;
  O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong。
  I hear the Florentine; who from his palace
  Wheels out his battle…bell with dreadful din;
  And Aztec priests upon their teocallis
  Beat the wild war…drums made of serpent's skin;
  The tumult of each sacked and burning village;
  The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns;
  The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage;
  The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;
  The bursting shell; the gateway wrenched asunder;
  The rattling musketry; the clashing blade;
  And ever and anon; in