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标题: Two Short Poems By Stevenson [打印本页]

作者: mu 时间: 2006-4-25 09:07
标题: Two Short Poems By Stevenson
"Fair Isle At Sea..."

Fair Isle at Sea - thy lovely name
Soft in my ear like music came.
That sea I loved, and once or twice
I touched at isles of Paradise.

Night and Day

From Child's Garden of Verses

When the golden day is done,
   Through the closing portal,
Child and garden, Flower and sun,
   Vanish all things mortal.

As the blinding shadows fall
   As the rays diminish,
Under evening's cloak they all
   Roll away and vanish.

Garden darkened, daisy shut,
   Child in bed, they slumber--
Glow-worm in the hallway rut,
   Mice among the lumber.

In the darkness houses shine,
   Parents move the candles;
Till on all the night divine
   Turns the bedroom handles.

Till at last the day begins
   In the east a-breaking,
In the hedges and the whins
   Sleeping birds a-waking.

In the darkness shapes of things,
   Houses, trees and hedges,
Clearer grow; and sparrow's wings
   Beat on window ledges.

These shall wake the yawning maid;
   She the door shall open--
Finding dew on garden glade
   And the morning broken.

There my garden grows again
   Green and rosy painted,
As at eve behind the pane
   From my eyes it fainted.

Just as it was shut away,
   Toy-like, in the even,
Here I see it glow with day
   Under glowing heaven.

Every path and every plot,
   Every blush of roses,
Every blue forget-me-not
   Where the dew reposes,

"Up!" they cry, "the day is come
   On the smiling valleys:
We have beat the morning drum;
   Playmate, join your allies!"

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