the children of the night-第8部分
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XXIV
Forebodings are the fiends of Recreance;
The master of the moment; the clean seer
Of ages; too securely scans what is;
Ever to be appalled at what is not;
He sees beyond the groaning borough lines
Of Hell; God's highways gleaming; and he knows
That Love's complete communion is the end
Of anguish to the liberated man。
XXV
Here by the windy docks I stand alone;
But yet companioned。 There the vessel goes;
And there my friend goes with it; but the wake
That melts and ebbs between that friend and me
Love's earnest is of Life's all…purposeful
And all…triumphant sailing; when the ships
Of Wisdom loose their fretful chains and swing
Forever from the crumbled wharves of Time。
Two Quatrains
I
Unity
As eons of incalculable strife
Are in the vision of one moment caught;
So are the common; concrete things of life
Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought。
II
Paraphrase
We shriek to live; but no man ever lives
Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;
We dream to die; but no man ever dies
Till he has quit the road that runs to death。
Romance
I
Boys
We were all boys; and three of us were friends;
And we were more than friends; it seemed to me:
Yes; we were more than brothers then; we three。 。 。 。
Brothers? 。 。 。 But we were boys; and there it ends。
II
James Wetherell
We never half believed the stuff
They told about James Wetherell;
We always liked him well enough;
And always tried to use him well;
But now some things have come to light;
And James has vanished from our view;
There is n't very much to write;
There is n't very much to do。
The Torrent
I found a torrent falling in a glen
Where the sun's light shone silvered and leaf…split;
The boom; the foam; and the mad flash of it
All made a magic symphony; but when
I thought upon the coming of hard men
To cut those patriarchal trees away;
And turn to gold the silver of that spray;
I shuddered。 Yet a gladness now and then
Did wake me to myself till I was glad
In earnest; and was welcoming the time
For screaming saws to sound above the chime
Of idle waters; and for me to know
The jealous visionings that I had had
Were steps to the great place where trees and torrents go。
L'Envoi
Now in a thought; now in a shadowed word;
Now in a voice that thrills eternity;
Ever there comes an onward phrase to me
Of some transcendent music I have heard;
No piteous thing by soft hands dulcimered;
No trumpet crash of blood…sick victory;
But a glad strain of some still symphony
That no proud mortal touch has ever stirred。
There is no music in the world like this;
No character wherewith to set it down;
No kind of instrument to make it sing。
No kind of instrument? Ah; yes; there is!
And after time and place are overthrown;
God's touch will keep its one chord quivering。
End