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the works of edgar allan poe-5-第43部分
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mentions eight; and Strabo thirteeen; (engulphed) … but the last is out of
all reason。
It is said; (Tacitus; Strabo; Josephus; Daniel of St。 Saba; Nau;
Maundrell; Troilo; D'Arvieux) that after an excessive drought; the
vestiges of columns; walls; &c。 are seen above the surface。 At _any_
season; such remains may be discovered by looking down into the
transparent lake; and at such distances as would argue the existence of
many settlements in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites。'
*That stole upon the ear; in Eyraco;
Of many a wild star…gazer long ago …
That stealeth ever on the ear of him
Who; musing; gazeth on the distance dim。
And sees the darkness coming as a cloud …
嘔s not its form … its voice … most palpable and loud ?
But what is this ? … it cometh … and it brings
A music with it … 'tis the rush of wings …
A pause … and then a sweeping; falling strain
And Nesace is in her halls again。
From the wild energy of wanton haste
Her cheeks were flushing; and her lips apart ;
And zone that clung around her gentle waist
Had burst beneath the heaving of her heart。
Within the centre of that hall to breathe
She paus'd and panted; Zanthe ! all beneath;
The fairy light that kiss'd her golden hair
And long'd to rest; yet could but sparkle there !
?Young flowers were whispering in melody
To happy flowers that night … and tree to tree ;
Fountains were gushing music as they fell
In many a star…lit grove; or moon…lit dell ;
Yet silence came upon material things …
Fair flowers; bright waterfalls and angel wings …
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang :
* Eyraco … Chaldea。
?I have often thought I could distinctly hear the sound of the
darkness as it stole over the horizon。
?Fairies use flowers for their charactery。 … _Merry Wives of
Windsor_。 'William Shakespeare'
〃 'Neath blue…bell or streamer …
Or tufted wild spray
That keeps; from the dreamer;
*The moonbeam away …
Bright beings ! that ponder;
With half closing eyes;
On the stars which your wonder
Hath drawn from the skies; 'in the original; this
line is slightly out of alignment'
Till they glance thro' the shade; and
Come down to your brow
Like eyes of the maiden
Who calls on you now …
Arise ! from your dreaming
In violet bowers;
To duty beseeming
These star…litten hours …
And shake from your tresses
Encumber'd with dew
The breath of those kisses
That cumber them too …
(O ! how; without you; Love !
Could angels be blest ?)
Those kisses of true love
That lull'd ye to rest !
Up ! … shake from your wing
Each hindering thing :
The dew of the night …
It would weigh down your flight ;
And true love caresses …
O ! leave them apart !
* In Scripture is this passage … 〃The sun shall not harm thee by day;
nor the moon by night。〃 It is perhaps not generally known that the moon;
in Egypt; has the effect of producing blindness to those who sleep with
the face exposed to its rays; to which circumstance the passage evidently
alludes。
They are light on the tresses;
But lead on the heart。
Ligeia ! Ligeia !
My beautiful one !
Whose harshest idea
Will to melody run;
O ! is it thy will
On the breezes to toss ?
Or; capriciously still;
*Like the lone Albatross;
Incumbent on night
(As she on the air)
To keep watch with delight
On the harmony there ?
Ligeia ! whatever
Thy image may be;
No magic shall sever
Thy music from thee。
Thou hast bound many eyes
In a dreamy sleep …
But the strains still arise
Which _thy_ vigilance keep …
The sound of the rain
Which leaps down to the flower;
And dances again
In the rhythm of the shower …
員he murmur that springs
From the growing of grass
* The Albatross is said to sleep on the wing。
?I met with this idea in an old English tale; which I am now unable
to obtain and quote from memory : … 〃The verie essence and; as it were;
springe…heade; and origine of all musiche is the verie pleasaunte sounde
which the trees of the forest do make when they growe。〃
Are the music of things …
But are modell'd; alas ! …
Away; then my dearest;
O ! hie thee away
To springs that lie clearest
Beneath the moon…ray …
To lone lake that smiles;
In its dream of deep rest;
At the many star…isles
That enjewel its breast …
Where wild flowers; creeping;
Have mingled their shade;
On its margin is sleeping
Full many a maid …
Some have left the cool glade; and
* Have slept with the bee …
Arouse them my maiden;
On moorland and lea …
Go ! breathe on their slumber;
All softly in ear;
The musical number
They slumber'd to hear …
For what can awaken
An angel so soon
* The wild bee will not sleep in the shade if there be moonlight。
The rhyme in this verse; as in one about sixty lines before; has an
appearance of affectation。 It is; however; imitated from Sir W。 Scott; or
rather from Claud Halcro … in whose mouth I admired its effect :
O ! were there an island;
Tho' ever so wild
Where woman might smile; and
No man be beguil'd; &c。
Whose sleep hath been taken
Beneath the cold moon;
As the spell which no slumber
Of witchery may test;
The rythmical number
Which lull'd him to rest ?〃
Spirits in wing; and angels to the view;
A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean thro';
Young dreams still hovering on their drowsy flight …
Seraphs in all but 〃Knowledge;〃 the keen light
That fell; refracted; thro' thy bounds; afar
O Death ! from eye of God upon that star:
Sweet was that error … sweeter still that death …
Sweet was that error … ev'n with _us_ the breath
Of science dims the mirror of our joy …
To them 'twere the Simoom; and would destroy …
For what (to them) availeth it to know
That Truth is Falsehood … or that Bliss is Woe ?
Sweet was their death … with them to die was rife
With the last ecstacy of satiate life …
Beyond that death no immortality …
But sleep that pondereth and is not 〃to be〃 …
And there … oh ! may my weary spirit dwell …
*Apart from Heaven's Eternity … and yet how far from Hell !
* With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell; where
men suffer no punishment; but yet do not attain that tranquil and even
happiness which they suppose to be characteristic of heavenly enjoyment。
Un no rompido sueno …
Un dia puro … allegre … libre
Quiera …
Libre de amor … de zelo …
De odio … de esperanza … de rezelo。 … _Luis Ponce de Leon_。
Sorrow is not excluded from 〃Al Aaraaf;〃 but it is that sorrow which
the living love to cherish for the dead; and which; in some minds;
resembles the delirium of opium。 The passionate excitement of Love and the
buoyancy of spirit attendant upon intoxication are its less holy pleasures
… the price of which; to those souls who make choice of 〃Al Aaraaf〃 as
their residence after life; is final death and annihilation。
What guilty spirit; in what shrubbery dim;
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn ?
But two : they fell : for Heaven no grace imparts
To those who hear not for their beating hearts。
A maiden…angel and her seraph…lover …
O ! where (and ye may seek the wide skies over)
Was Love; the blind; near sober Duty known ?
*Unguided Love hath fallen … 'mid 〃tears of perfect moan。〃
He was a goodly spirit … he who fell :
A wanderer by moss…y…mantled well …
A gazer on the lights that shine above …
A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love :
What wonder ? For each star is eye…like there;
And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair …
And they; and ev'ry mossy spring were holy
To his love…haunted heart and melancholy。
The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a mountain crag; young Angelo …
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky;
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie。
Here sate he with his love … his dark eye bent
With eagle gaze along the firmament:
Now turn'd it upon her … but ever then
It trembled to the orb of EARTH again。
〃Iante; dearest; see ! how dim that ray !
How lovely 'tis to look so far away !
* There be tears of perfect moan
Wept for thee in Helicon。… _Milton。_
She seem'd not thus upon that autumn eve
I left her gorgeous halls … nor mourn'd to leave。
That eve … that eve … I should remember well …
The sun…ray dropp'd; in Lemnos; with a spell
On th'Arabesque carving of a gilded hall
Wherein I sate; and on the draperied wall …
And on my eye…lids … O the heavy light !
How drowsily it weigh'd them into night !
On flowers; before; and mist; and love they ran
With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan :
But O that light! … I slumber'd … Death; the while;
Stole o'er my senses in that lovely isle
So sof
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