第 124 节
作者:空白协议书      更新:2021-02-21 16:30      字数:9322
  Or sparkle with the Rhenish wine;
  And pilgrim flasks with fleurs…de…lis;
  And ships upon a rolling sea;
  And tankards pewter topped; and queer
  With comic mask and musketeer!
  Each hospitable chimney smiles
  A welcome from its painted tiles;
  The parlor walls; the chamber floors;
  The stairways and the corridors;
  The borders of the garden walks;
  Are beautiful with fadeless flowers;
  That never droop in winds or showers;
  And never wither on their stalks。
  Turn; turn; my wheel!  All life is brief;
  What now is bud wilt soon be leaf;
  What now is leaf will soon decay;
  The wind blows east; the wind blows west;
  The blue eyes in the robin's nest
  Will soon have wings and beak and breast;
  And flutter and fly away。
  Now southward through the air I glide;
  The song my only pursuivant;
  And see across the landscape wide
  The blue Charente; upon whose tide
  The belfries and the spires of Saintes
  Ripple and rock from side to side;
  As; when an earthquake rends its walls;
  A crumbling city reels and falls。
  Who is it in the suburbs here;
  This Potter; working with such cheer;
  In this mean house; this mean attire;
  His manly features bronzed with fire;
  Whose figulines and rustic wares
  Scarce find him bread from day to day?
  This madman; as the people say;
  Who breaks his tables and his chairs
  To feed his furnace fires; nor cares
  Who goes unfed if they are fed;
  Nor who may live if they are dead?
  This alchemist with hollow cheeks
  And sunken; searching eyes; who seeks;
  By mingled earths and ores combined
  With potency of fire; to find
  Some new enamel; hard and bright;
  His dream; his passion; his delight?
  O Palissy! within thy breast
  Burned the hot fever of unrest;
  Thine was the prophets vision; thine
  The exultation; the divine
  Insanity of noble minds;
  That never falters nor abates;
  But labors and endures and waits;
  Till all that it foresees it finds;
  Or what it cannot find creates!
  Turn; turn; my wheel!  This earthen jar
  A touch can make; a touch can mar;
  And shall it to the Potter say;
  What makest thou。  Thou hast no hand?
  As men who think to understand
  A world by their Creator planned;
  Who wiser is than they。
  Still guided by the dreamy song;
  As in a trance I float along
  Above the Pyrenean chain;
  Above the fields and farms of Spain;
  Above the bright Majorcan isle;
  That lends its softened name to art;
  A spot; a dot upon the chart;
  Whose little towns; red…roofed with tile;
  Are ruby…lustred with the light
  Of blazing furnaces by night;
  And crowned by day with wreaths of smoke。
  Then eastward; wafted in my flight
  On my enchanter's magic cloak;
  I sail across the Tyrrhene Sea
  Into the land of Italy;
  And o'er the windy Apennines;
  Mantled and musical with pines。
  The palaces; the princely halls;
  The doors of houses and the walls
  Of churches and of belfry towers;
  Cloister and castle; street and mart;
  Are garlanded and gay with flowers
  That blossom in the fields of art。
  Here Gubbio's workshops gleam and glow
  With brilliant; iridescent dyes;
  The dazzling whiteness of the snow;
  The cobalt blue of summer skies;
  And vase and scutcheon; cup and plate;
  In perfect finish emulate
  Faenza; Florence; Pesaro。
  Forth from Urbino's gate there came
  A youth with the angelic name
  Of Raphael; in form and face
  Himself angelic; and divine
  In arts of color and design。
  From him Francesco Xanto caught
  Something of his transcendent grace;
  And into fictile fabrics wrought
  Suggestions of the master's thought。
  Nor less Maestro Giorgio shines
  With madre…perl and golden lines
  Of arabesques; and interweaves
  His birds and fruits and flowers and leaves
  About some landscape; shaded brown;
  With olive tints on rock and town。
  Behold this cup within whose bowl;
  Upon a ground of deepest blue
  With yellow…lustred stars o'erlaid;
  Colors of every tint and hue
  Mingle in one harmonious whole!
  With large blue eyes and steadfast gaze;
  Her yellow hair in net and braid;
  Necklace and ear…rings all ablaze
  With golden lustre o'er the glaze;
  A woman's portrait; on the scroll;
  Cana; the Beautiful!  A name
  Forgotten save for such brief fame
  As this memorial can bestow;
  A gift some lover long ago
  Gave with his heart to this fair dame。
  A nobler title to renown
  Is thine; O pleasant Tuscan town;
  Seated beside the Arno's stream;
  For Lucca della Robbia there
  Created forms so wondrous fair;
  They made thy sovereignty supreme。
  These choristers with lips of stone;
  Whose music is not heard; but seen;
  Still chant; as from their organ…screen;
  Their Maker's praise; nor these alone;
  But the more fragile forms of clay;
  Hardly less beautiful than they;
  These saints and angels that adorn
  The walls of hospitals; and tell
  The story of good deeds so well
  That poverty seems less forlorn;
  And life more like a holiday。
  Here in this old neglected church;
  That long eludes the traveller's search;
  Lies the dead bishop on his tomb;
  Earth upon earth he slumbering lies;
  Life…like and death…like in the gloom;
  Garlands of fruit and flowers in bloom
  And foliage deck his resting place;
  A shadow in the sightless eyes;
  A pallor on the patient face;
  Made perfect by the furnace heat;
  All earthly passions and desires
  Burnt out by purgatorial fires;
  Seeming to say; 〃Our years are fleet;
  And to the weary death is sweet。〃
  But the most wonderful of all
  The ornaments on tomb or wall
  That grace the fair Ausonian shores
  Are those the faithful earth restores;
  Near some Apulian town concealed;
  In vineyard or in harvest field;
  Vases and urns and bas…reliefs;
  Memorials of forgotten griefs;
  Or records of heroic deeds
  Of demigods and mighty chiefs:
  Figures that almost move and speak;
  And; buried amid mould and weeds;
  Still in their attitudes attest
  The presence of the graceful Greek;
  Achilles in his armor dressed;
  Alcides with the Cretan bull;
  And Aphrodite with her boy;
  Or lovely Helena of Troy;
  Still living and still beautiful。
  Turn; turn; my wheel!  'T is nature's plan
  The child should grow into the man;
  The man grow wrinkled; old; and gray;
  In youth the heart exults and sings;
  The pulses leap; the feet have wings;
  In age the cricket chirps; and brings
  The harvest home of day。
  And now the winds that southward blow;
  And cool the hot Sicilian isle;
  Bear me away。  I see below
  The long line of the Libyan Nile;
  Flooding and feeding the parched land
  With annual ebb and overflow;
  A fallen palm whose branches lie
  Beneath the Abyssinian sky;
  Whose roots are in Egyptian sands;
  On either bank huge water…wheels;
  Belted with jars and dripping weeds;
  Send forth their melancholy moans;
  As if; in their gray mantles hid;
  Dead anchorites of the Thebaid
  Knelt on the shore and told their beads;
  Beating their breasts with loud appeals
  And penitential tears and groans。
  This city; walled and thickly set
  With glittering mosque and minaret;
  Is Cairo; in whose gay bazaars
  The dreaming traveller first inhales
  The perfume of Arabian gales;
  And sees the fabulous earthen jars;
  Huge as were those wherein the maid
  Morgiana found the Forty Thieves
  Concealed in midnight ambuscade;
  And seeing; more than half believes
  The fascinating tales that run
  Through all the Thousand Nights and One;
  Told by the fair Scheherezade。
  More strange and wonderful than these
  Are the Egyptian deities;
  Ammonn; and Emeth; and the grand
  Osiris; holding in his hand
  The lotus; Isis; crowned and veiled;
  The sacred Ibis; and the Sphinx;
  Bracelets with blue enamelled links;
  The Scarabee in emerald mailed;
  Or spreading wide his funeral wings;
  Lamps that perchance their night…watch kept
  O'er Cleopatra while she slept;
  All plundered from the tombs of kings。
  Turn; turn; my wheel!  The human race;
  Of every tongue; of every place;
  Caucasian; Coptic; or Malay;
  All that inhabit this great earth;
  Whatever be their rank or worth;
  Are kindred and allied by birth;
  And made of the same clay。
  O'er desert sands; o'er gulf and bay;
  O'er Ganges and o'er Himalay;
  Bird…like I fly; and flying sing;
  To flowery kingdoms of Cathay;
  And bird…like poise on balanced wing
  Above the town of King…te…tching;
  A burning town; or seeming so;
  Three thousand furnaces that glow
  Incessantly; and fill the air
  With smoke uprising; gyre on gyre
  And painted by the lurid glare;
  Of jets and flashes of red fire。
  As leaves that in the autumn fall;
  Spotted and veined with various hues;
  Are swept along the avenues;
  And lie in heaps by hedge and wall;
  So from this grove of chimneys whirled
  To all the markets of the world;
  These porcelain leaves are wafted on;
  Light yellow leaves with spots and stains
  Of violet and of crimson dye;
  Or tender azure of a sky
  Just washed by gentle April r