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an anthology of australian verse-第30部分
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Such as the Icelanders say;
Or past the West's ruddy strand
Or on the edge of the day;
Some undiscovered clime
Seen through a cloud's sudden rift;
Where all the rainbows of Time
Slowly and silently drift?
Some happy port of a sea
Never a world's sail has made;
Where till the earth shadows flee
Never a rainbow may fade。
Oh; if that rainbow up there;
Just for a moment would reach;
Through the wet slope of the air
Here where I stand on the beach。
Here where the waves wash the strand
Swing itself lovingly low;
Let me catch fast with one hand;
Climb its frail rigging and go!
Johannes Carl Andersen。
Soft; Low and Sweet
Soft; low and sweet; the blackbird wakes the day;
And clearer pipes; as rosier grows the gray
Of the wide sky; far; far into whose deep
The rath lark soars; and scatters down the steep
His runnel song; that skyey roundelay。
Earth with a sigh awakes; and tremors play;
Coy in her leafy trees; and falt'ring creep
Across the daisy lawn and whisper; 〃Well…a…day;〃
Soft; low and sweet。
From violet…banks the scent…clouds float away
And spread around their fragrance; as of sleep:
From ev'ry mossy nook the blossoms peep;
From ev'ry blossom comes one little ray
That makes the world…wealth one with Spring; alway
Soft; low and sweet。
Maui Victor
Unhewn in quarry lay the Parian stone;
Ere hands; god…guided; of Praxiteles
Might shape the Cnidian Venus。 Long ungrown
The ivory was which; chiselled; robbed of ease
Pygmalion; sculptor…lover。 Now are these;
The stone and ivory; immortal made。
The golden apples of Hesperides
Shall never; scattered; in blown dust be laid;
Till Time; the dragon…guard; has lived his last decade。
The Cnidian Venus; Galatea's shape;
A wondering world beheld; as we behold;
Here; in blest isles beyond the stormy Cape;
Where man the new land dowers with the old;
Are neither marble shapes nor fruits of gold;
Nor white…limbed maidens; queened enchantress…wise;
Here; Nature's beauties no vast ruins enfold;
No glamour fills her such as 'wildering lies
Where Mediterranean waters laugh to Grecian skies。
Acropolis with figure group and frieze;
Parthenon; Temple; concepts born divine;
Where in these Isles are wonders great as these?
Unquarried lies the stone in teeming mine;
Bare is the land of sanctuary and shrine;
But though frail hands no god…like record set
Great Nature's powers are lavish; and combine
In mountain dome; ice…glancing minaret;
Deep fiord; fiery fountain and lake with tree…wove carcanet。
And though the dusky race that to and fro;
Like their own shades; pass by and leave no trace;
No age…contemning works from quick brain throw;
They still have left what Time shall not efface;
The legends of an isolated race。
Not vainly Maui strove; no; not in vain
He dared the old Mother of Death and her embrace:
That mankind might go free; he suffered pain
And death he boldly dared; eternal life to gain。
Not death but dormancy the old womb has known;
New love shall quicken it; new life attain:
These legends old in ivory and stone
Shall live their recreated life again;
Shall wake; like Galatea; to joy and pain。
Legends and myths and wonders; what are these
But glittering mines that long unworked have lain?
A Homer shall unlock with magic keys
Treasure for some antipodean Praxiteles!
Dora Wilcox。
In London
When I look out on London's teeming streets;
On grim grey houses; and on leaden skies;
My courage fails me; and my heart grows sick;
And I remember that fair heritage
Barter'd by me for what your London gives。
This is not Nature's city: I am kin
To whatsoever is of free and wild;
And here I pine between these narrow walls;
And London's smoke hides all the stars from me;
Light from mine eyes; and Heaven from my heart。
For in an island of those Southern seas
That lie behind me; guarded by the Cross
That looks all night from out our splendid skies;
I know a valley opening to the East。
There; hour by hour; the lazy tide creeps in
Upon the sands I shall not pace again
Save in a dream; and; hour by hour; the tide
Creeps lazily out; and I behold it not;
Nor the young moon slow sinking to her rest
Behind the hills; nor yet the dead white trees
Glimmering in the starlight: they are ghosts
Of what has been; and shall be never more。
No; never more!
Nor shall I hear again
The wind that rises at the dead of night
Suddenly; and sweeps inward from the sea;
Rustling the tussock; nor the wekas' wail
Echoing at evening from the tawny hills。
In that deserted garden that I lov'd
Day after day; my flowers drop unseen;
And as your Summer slips away in tears;
Spring wakes our lovely Lady of the Bush;
The Kowhai; and she hastes to wrap herself
All in a mantle wrought of living gold;
Then come the birds; who are her worshippers;
To hover round her; tuis swift of wing;
And bell…birds flashing sudden in the sun;
Carolling: Ah! what English nightingale;
Heard in the stillness of a summer eve;
From out the shadow of historic elms;
Sings sweeter than our Bell…bird of the Bush?
And Spring is here: now the Veronica;
Our Koromiko; whitens on the cliff;
The honey…sweet Manuka buds; and bursts
In bloom; and the divine Convolvulus;
Most fair and frail of all our forest flowers;
Stars every covert; running riotous。
O quiet valley; opening to the East;
How far from this thy peacefulness am I!
Ah me; how far! and far this stream of Life
From thy clear creek fast falling to the sea!
Yet let me not lament that these things are
In that lov'd country I shall see no more;
All that has been is mine inviolate;
Lock'd in the secret book of memory。
And though I change; my valley knows no change。
And when I look on London's teeming streets;
On grim grey houses; and on leaden skies;
When speech seems but the babble of a crowd;
And music fails me; and my lamp of life
Burns low; and Art; my mistress; turns from me;
Then do I pass beyond the Gate of Dreams
Into my kingdom; walking unconstrained
By ways familiar under Southern skies;
Nor unaccompanied; the dear dumb things
I lov'd once; have their immortality。
There too is all fulfilment of desire:
In this the valley of my Paradise
I find again lost ideals; dreams too fair
For lasting; there I meet once more mine own
Whom Death has stolen; or Life estranged from me;
And thither; with the coming of the dark;
Thou comest; and the night is full of stars。
Ernest Currie。
Laudabunt Alii
There are some that long for a limpid lake by a blue Italian shore;
Or a palm…grove out where the rollers break and the coral beaches roar;
There are some for the land of the Japanee; and the tea…girls' twinkling feet;
And some for the isles of the summer sea; afloat in the dancing heat;
And others are exiles all their days; midst black or white or brown;
Who yearn for the clashing of crowded ways; and the lights of London town。
But always I would wish to be where the seasons gently fall
On the Further Isle of the Outer Sea; the last little isle of all;
A fair green land of hill and plain; of rivers and water…springs;
Where the sun still follows after the rain; and ever the hours have wings;
With its bosomed valleys where men may find retreat from
the rough world's way 。 。 。
Where the sea…wind kisses the mountain…wind between the dark and the day。
The combers swing from the China Sea to the California Coast;
The North Atlantic takes toll and fee of the best of the Old World's boast;
And the waves run high with the tearing crash that the Cape…bound
steamers fear
But they're not so free as the waves that lash the rocks by Sumner pier;
And wheresoever my body be; my heart remembers still
The purple shadows upon the sea; low down from Sumner hill。
The warm winds blow through Kuringai; the cool winds from the South
Drive little clouds across the sky by Sydney harbour…mouth;
But Sydney Heads feel no such breeze as comes from nor'…west rain
And takes the pines and the blue…gum trees by hill and gorge and plain;
And whistles down from Porter's Pass; over the fields of wheat;
And brings a breath of tussock grass into a Christchurch street。
Or the East wind dropping its sea…born rain; or the South wind wild and loud
Comes up and over the waiting plain; with a banner of driving cloud;
And if dark clouds bend to the teeming earth; and the hills are dimmed
with rain;
There is only to wait for a new day's birth and the hills stand out again。
For no less sure than the rising sun; and no less glad to see
Is the lifting sky when the rain is done and the wet grass rustles free。
Some day we may drop the Farewell Light; and lose the winds of ho
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