草叶集 第十一章(英文)(4)
to limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at led hamlet, lear, othello—tennyson's fair ladies,
metre or ht of singers;
these, these, o sea, all these i'd gladly barter,
al, through space's spread,
rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations,
es by you from distant stars to us? gregate of all?
nificance in you? the universe in a ship?
last of ebb, and daylight
last of ebb, and daylight ,
scented sea?cool land, smells of sedge and salt incoming,
ht voice sent up from the eddies,
many a muffled confession—many a sob and reatest of any, ns,
love's unresponse—a chorus of age's complaints—hope's last cry, aain return.
on to oblivion then!
on, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
on for your time, ye furious debouche!
and yet not you alone
and yet not you alone, tht and burying ebb,
nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
i knolamour's seeming;
duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
duly the needed discord?parts offsetting, blending,
from you, from sleep, night, death itself,
the rhythmus of birth eternal.
proudly the flood comes in
proudly the flood comes in, shouting, fong, advancing,
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