second april-第6节
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Altered; estranged; disintegrated; lost。
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour。
In spite of all my love; you will arise
Upon that day and wander down the air
Obscurely as the unattended flower;
It mattering not how beautiful you were;
Or how beloved above all else that dies。
IX
Let you not say of me when I am old;
In pretty worship of my withered hands
Forgetting who I am; and how the sands
Of such a life as mine run red and gold
Even to the ultimate sifting dust; 〃Behold;
Here walketh passionless age!〃for there expands
A curious superstition in these lands;
And by its leave some weightless tales are told。
In me no lenten wicks watch out the night;
I am the booth where Folly holds her fair;
Impious no less in ruin than in strength;
When I lie crumbled to the earth at length;
Let you not say; 〃Upon this reverend site
The righteous groaned and beat their breasts in prayer。〃
X
Oh; my beloved; have you thought of this:
How in the years to come unscrupulous Time;
More cruel than Death; will tear you from my kiss;
And make you old; and leave me in my prime?
How you and I; who scale together yet
A little while the sweet; immortal height
No pilgrim may remember or forget;
As sure as the world turns; some granite night
Shall lie awake and know the gracious flame
Gone out forever on the mutual stone;
And call to mind that on the day you came
I was a child; and you a hero grown?
And the night pass; and the strange morning break
Upon our anguish for each other's sake!
XI
As to some lovely temple; tenantless
Long since; that once was sweet with shivering brass;
Knowing well its altars ruined and the grass
Grown up between the stones; yet from excess
Of grief hard driven; or great loneliness;
The worshiper returns; and those who pass
Marvel him crying on a name that was;
So is it now with me in my distress。
Your body was a temple to Delight;
Cold are its ashes whence the breath is fled;
Yet here one time your spirit was wont to move;
Here might I hope to find you day or night;
And here I come to look for you; my love;
Even now; foolishly; knowing you are dead。
XII
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget
At length; my lord; Pieria?put away
For your so passing sake; this mouth of clay
These mortal bones against my body set;
For all the puny fever and frail sweat
Of human love;renounce for these; I say;
The Singing Mountain's memory; and betray
The silent lyre that hangs upon me yet?
Ah; but indeed; some day shall you awake;
Rather; from dreams of me; that at your side
So many nights; a lover and a bride;
But stern in my soul's chastity; have lain;
To walk the world forever for my sake;
And in each chamber find me gone again!
WILD SWANS
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over。
And what did I see I had not seen before?
Only a question less or a question more;
Nothing to match the flight of wild birds flying。
Tiresome heart; forever living and dying;
House without air; I leave you and lock your door。
Wild swans; come over the town; come over
The town again; trailing your legs and crying!
End